Matlock Parks Country Park

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Matlock Parks Country Park is a country park in Derbyshire, covering 0.32 km². The Albion Guide lists twelve country parks in the county; this is one of them. Matlock Bath Station is under a kilometre away. For more of the same, Masson Hill and Heights of Abraham Country Park are close by.

More places to visit near Matlock Parks Country Park

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Masson Mills

Landmark near Cromford

Arkwright's showpiece red-brick mill of 1783 on the Derwent at Matlock Bath, now a working textile museum.

1.6 km S

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Cromford

Village

The cradle of the factory system, where Richard Arkwright built the world's first water-powered cotton mill in 1771.

1.7 km S · Derbyshire

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Peak District

National Park near Castleton

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

1.9 km NW

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Cromford Mill

Landmark near Cromford

Richard Arkwright's 1771 mill, the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning works and heart of the Derwent Valley WHS.

2 km S

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Lumsdale Falls

Waterfall near Matlock Bath

Bentley Brook stepping down through the ruined water mills of the Lumsdale valley above Matlock — industrial archaeology dissolving into a fern gorge.

2.2 km NE