Dove Valley and Biggin Dale

Celebrated limestone ravine on the River Dove, its famous stepping stones crossing below the cone of Thorpe Cloud.

adjoining

Winding limestone valley where the River Manifold vanishes underground in summer, followed by a traffic-free trail on the old light railway.

0.6 km S

Estate village at the foot of the Peak District, its Swiss-style Gothic cottages clustered below Ilam Hall where the Manifold and Dove valleys meet.

1 km SW · Staffordshire

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

1.7 km N · spans 6 counties

A sixty-foot symmetrical cave mouth punched through a limestone crag above the Manifold valley — occupied since the Stone Age, photographed since the Victorians.

3.5 km W