What to do While You are Here
Comments and Local Recommendations from our Guests
…With lots of links so you can see for yourselves…These comments below all come from the Visitors’ Books too, but as they have some very helpful recommendations I have extracted them and put in links to help any research (I haven’t repeated any links (e.g. the George, which doesn’t appear after the first one). I [...]
More fun things to do while you’re here in the Peak District
The ‘new’ Monsal Trail, Chatsworth, Sally Mosley Walks and cable cars…As the summer season approaches, and more prosaically, probably because half term and the next Bank Holiday weekend is coming up, there seems to be a lot of information about what’s on, so I will try to distill some of it, with links so you [...]
Chatsworth Horse Trials
§ Some More Great Things to do while staying in Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns §You don’t have to be competing to enjoy the Horse Trials at Chatsworth, which take place in May every year; you don’t even have to be horsey although it probably helps. There was a lot to watch but one impressive thing [...]
British Beer, Elizabethan Manor Houses and Electric Bikes
§ Some great things to do while staying in Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns § The National Trust and the National Brewery Centre… a heady mix for one day and John and I have just spent a most enjoyable- and useful – day sampling both. Our local tourism board, Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, runs familiarisation [...]
Haddon Hall – Special Offers for Guests of Peak District Premier Cottages
You may remember hearing that Peak District Premier Cottages, the regional group of Premier Cottages owners, of which we are proud to be members, have been nominated by Haddon Hall as their holiday accommodation providers of choice. Obviously this is something we are all delighted about; but it isn’t just a question of feeling flattered [...]
Haddon Hall
…Jane Eyre, Judi Dench and then Peak District Premier Cottages…!We are fortunate enough to belong to the Peak District Premier Cottages group – the very dynamic regional section of the national Premier Cottages cooperative of holiday cottage owners. You can see many of our jolly group in the ‘team photo’ taken on the steps to [...]
Some Random Local Recommendations
We have some guests’ recommendations, and John and I have been doing a little sampling of local eateries, too. Firstly, a joint one. Sam and Gary, who were here on their sixth visit very recently (they first came for their honeymoon, several years ago now) arranged for our next door neighbour, Val Kirkham, of TopNosh [...]
DRCS Comic Revue sell-out!
What a triumph! And a certain future career on the stage for J and MF-S…! Well, perhaps not the last bit but just see the photos… As you may remember, John had early on established an apparent inability or perhaps unwillingness to learn words; his three parts involved a lot of action but no spoken [...]
A rare opportunity to see J & MF-S on stage
The two big DRCS fundraising events I mentioned in the previous post are planned for later in the year. You can find out a bit more about them if your click the link to DRCS above; both events will really be very well worth attending if you are anywhere in the area. (For those many [...]
Catching up
Another busy week in the Orchard Farm household, but the business mainly very pleasurable. Friday is usually a very full day here, with the changeovers, and getting anything else done that needs to be done in the way of repairs and maintenance in the five hours that we have. It was as full as any [...]
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