The Peak District makes a great loving partner. One way of looking at my relationship with the Peak District, may be that I am married to it. Well at least it feels a bit like that. A Ruby Anniversary… 40 years on. It all started at the age of 13 when I would be dropped off at the farm at the top of Winnats Pass with a tent, a geological hammer and some food for a few days. Armed with Geological Survey maps I would hunt out mine workings and try to find Blue John hydrothermal seams as well as minerals discarded as old mine waste. With quite a lot of success back in the day, I returned home with a car full of geological...
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Peak District Voices
The Peak District National Park is a truly inspiring place, and the tales told by the area’s people are every bit as varied, intriguing and wonderful as the landscape. Our Peak District Voices page is a platform for fascinating stories from every corner of the Peak District, told by the people who know the place best. Here you’ll find the accounts of artists, writers, designers, sheep farmers, runners, social historians and fishermen, to name but a few. Their experiences are all different, but tied together by a passion for this beautiful place that inspires them every day.
The Living Rug Company
The Living Rug Company The Living Rug Company in the Staffordshire Peak District Hello and welcome to my first blog on Let's Go Peak District. I thought I would do an introduction to who I am, and what my little business is all about in my inaugural blog. I am from Yorkshire originally and I have moved about quite a bit. I came to live in the Peak District about thirty years ago. I now live in the Staffordshire Moorlands just on the edge of the Peak District and have lived here for just over ten years. The farm is quite remote and is about 1,350ft high so the weather can be a real challenge sometimes. The Living Rug Company pastures We moved...
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#LetsGoPeakDistrict An Ordinary Family of 5 Cheshire Walks Derbyshire Walks Kids' Walks Less than 5 miles Peak District Voices Peak District Walks
An Easy Trig Walk for Kids from ‘An Ordinary Family of Five’
Trig points are a great way to add a bit of purpose to a walk. Especially if there are kids involved. Most high points across Great Britain, will have a trig point, or a cairn placed on top. Kids like to use these points as a marker and an achievement which spurs them on to walk a little bit easier, and further!
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Let’s Hear Your Peak District Voice!
If you would like to contribute a ‘Peak District Voice’ please get in touch with us via one of our social media channels in the first instance. We think sharing is caring, so every Peak District Voice is shared to our large and engaged Facebook audience [Let’s Go Peak District Facebook] which means that a post sharing a link to your content goes on to be liked and shared widely by our followers. What do we want in return? Just a link back to Let’s Go Peak District from your blog or website. That’s it!