Month: March 2016

When is Bakewell Farmers Market?

Bakewell Farmers Markets – Saturdays 9am – 2pm Get there early, as stalls sell out due to popular demand! Visitors and locals alike, are to be found mingling together around the 70 + stalls packed with superb local produce and crafts at Bakewell Farmers Markets. Being one of the larger towns with in the peak
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Chatsworth House This Easter

Chatsworth House and Park is one of Derbyshire’s most iconic buildings, with its yellow stone and surrounding gardens it is hard for it not to take your breath away. Sir William Cavendish and his wife first lived in the original house in the mid-16th century.  After his passing many Dukes resided in Chatsworth house, with
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Flowering in Derbyshire

  Well Dressing, also once known as well flowering, is a custom practised in rural England, where people from mainly The Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire come together and take part in the decoration of wells. Created from flower petals. The custom is thought to have originated in Tissington, Derbyshire in 1349 and was
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