The area is ideal for walking, and short drives will take you into areas of varied and spectacular scenery. You can easily reach Dovedale and the Goyt valley with their gorges and rushing streams, and can walk around the lakes and through the forests in the Derwent valley where The Dambusters practiced.

Within a few miles of Pickford Place, there are opportunities for pony trekking, You can hire bikes to ride around the lakes, or buy day permits to fish from the lakeshore. At Matlock Bath you can take a cable car across the spectacular valley to a dinosaur museum and caves.

EDALE. Four miles away, is a small village at the beginning of the Pennine Way walk. It has spectacular scenary and pleasant walking.

BAKEWELL is a town with great character, where the Bakewell tart originated. There is a country marked each Monday and a wealth of interesting shops, cafes and pubs.

We are within easy travelling distance of Chatsworth House with its opulent furnishings and extensive grounds. Within half an hour by car you can reach the mediaeval Haddon Hall; and just past Chesterfield are the spectacular Old and 'New' halls of Hardwick. Lyme Hall with its extensive park for walking and orienteering is just down the road from Chapel.

CHAPEL EN LE FRITH. Is a medievil town dating from Saxon times. It is centrally placed for exploring the northern Peak District by foot or by car.
Our cottages are just off the Market Place in a secluded area but within easy reach of all the amenities.

CHATSWORTH HOUSE - is probably the most notable house in the area. It has wonderful grounds for walking, gardens with a maze, the famous emperor fountain and water cascade. For the children there is a farm park with a large and very exciting adventure playground. There is a farm shop, a garden centre and a restaurant with cafe in the stables, for that welcome cup of tea.

HARDWICK HALL, near Chesterfield, is a National Trust which belonged to Bess of Hardwick. It is a late Elizabethan house with a find collection of tapestries. There is a fine display of Elizabethan needlework too. Nearby is a working water mill from medevil times. Old Hardwick Hall in the same grounds is worth a visit. This shows the structure and magnitude of Elizabethan buidlings. There are several National Trust properties within an hour or so steady driving. Tatton Park, Tatton Old Hall, Little Morton Hall, Quarry Bank Mill, all with their own particular stories to tell.

CHESTERFIELD is 45 minutes drive away. It is a large market town with different types of market on several days of the week. Its greatest claim to fame is its crooked church spire, grown that way during the plague when the structure was left unclad. LEEK is a market town in Staffordshire, 30 minutes drive from Chapel. It is a quaint and relatively unspoiled town with a variety of interesting shops.

ALTON TOWERS, probably the most notable Adventure park in the North of England, is 35 minutes steady drive away. It has scary and spectacular rides for those who like such things.

PUBS. There are many pubs in the countryside and the villages most of which provide home-cooked, good value food.

SWIMMING POOLS are at Buxton and New Mills, only fifteen minutes drive away.

FISHING is possible in the lakes by day permit in the season.

GOLF COURSES are at Chapel and Buxton and there is a driving range at Buxton that caters for all the family who want to practice golf or just have fun.

WELL DRESSING There is an old Derbyshire custom of decorating village wells with biblical scenes made out of flowers and natural materials. Wells Dressings can be seen in various villages throughout the summer.

TOURISM: The Peak District does not generally get so crowded as the Lakes, Cornwall or Wales. It is a compact area with a great variety of scenary, all within an hour's sedate driving of our cottages. There are regular, guided walks throughout the summer which generally go from ten to twelve miles in a day.

LYME PARK is a National Trust house and deer park six miles from Chapel. This is where the BBC's Pride and Prejudice was filmed. You can walk where Darcy and Elizabeth walked and talked. There are extensive grounds, pleasant gardens and the hall with a notable clock collection. There is also a nice children's playground, and two cafes.

CASTLETON. Four miles away is a picturesque village with a Norman Castle set dramatically on a high cliff. There are many gift shops selling the local Blue John stone, a yellow and blue translucent feldspar found only at Castleton. There are spectacular caves in and near the village.

HATHERSAGE, is a small town who's claims to fame are the grave of Little John in the local church yard, and is the place where Charlott Bronte wrote and set Jayne Aire. It is a pleasant town at the foot of spcetacular cliffs and moorland.

THE DERWENT VALLEY at the foot of the Snake Pass, is a series of reservoirs surrounded by woods and dramatic hills. There are wonderful walks and cycle rides (from a cycle hire centre), around the lakes

BUXTON is a spa town which has been used for its healing waters since Roman times. It has notable stone buildings, Victorian arcades and a park with a good playground for children.

EYAM is famous for its role in stopping the plague from spreading through the district. The cottages are marked with the names of the residents who died during the plague. It has an old church with a large Celtic cross in the graveyard. Nearby is 15th Century Eyam Hall, worthwhile a visit, with a craft centre and cafe in the grounds.

HADDON HALL near Bakewell is a medievil house of great character. Shut up for two-hundred years, it escaped the attention of Victorian remodlers and has changed little since the time of Henry XIII.

Haddon Hall was the setting for the 2006 BBC Drama Jane Eyre and has been used in several other TV dramas including Moll Flanders.

CRICH TRAMWAY MUSEUM is an open air museum where one can relive the times when trams were the main form of transport in our towns. A ride on a tram through the valley is very nostalgic for those who are getting on in years.

GULLIVERS KINGDOM near Matlock is a theme park for smaller children.

MATLOCK BATH is a mecca for bikers on a Sunday. Apart from that, there is the cable car which gives spectacular views as it glides to the top of the Heights of Abraham where there is a playground for children, a cafe and dinosaur museum as well as an interesting cave to visit. Arkwright's mill has been turned into a multi-floor shopping complex with many bargains to be had.

HARTINGTON is a good centre for walking. It is a village set around a green, with the Stilton cheese factory and a variety of pubs, cafes and shops.

VILLAGES. There are many small, quaint villages around the area within a short drive of Chapel. All have their charm, their particular attractions, pubs and shops.