Rue Hill

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

2.2 km N

Churnet Valley village framed by Pugin's fairytale Alton Castle and Towers, with steep lanes, an old lock-up and wooded riverside walks.

5.9 km S · Staffordshire

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.

6.5 km NE · Staffordshire

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

6.8 km E

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

7.1 km N

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

7.1 km NE