01335 310282Peak District in the centre of England is the first National Park declared thus in the British Isles. It is the second most visited national park in the whole world, next only to Mount Fuji National Park in Japan. Stay at a luxury holiday cottage and go around the district seeing the sights and recharging yourself for your next go at a stress-filled life.
The Peak District, lying mostly in Derbyshire, stretches down to the National Forest in the south. For the nature lover, there are landscapes of leafy forests, rugged moorland, rolling hills and dales, and lush meadows in the park.
The district is not just about scenery and greenery, however. There are historic castles, museums giving glimpses into life in an earlier era and village festivals that preserve old traditions. Then of course, there is golf, night life and other entertainment for the modern men and women.
Let’s take a closer look at just two of the attractions:
• The Haddon Hall is a medieval Tudor manor with roses climbing on its exterior walls. It has a medieval kitchen where you can see how people did their cooking in those times, and the most modern room in the manor is an Elizabethan long gallery. The Hall is a popular location for film and TV shooting.
• The Silk Mill is located on the ground where one of the country’s first factories, the Lombe brothers’ Silk Mill completed in the first half of the 18th century, stood. Presently it is Derby’s Museum of Industry and History displaying railways and Rolls Royce aero engines among others.
You can stay right in the Peak District Park at the Paddock House Farm Holiday Cottages that offers varied accommodation (from a one-bedroom two-person cottage to three-bedroom eight-person cottages) spread over a 35-acre ground (five acres of which consist of gardens and grassland).
Drive or walk around during the day and retreat into your cottage for the night enjoying a few beers and self-cooked food, or taking a moonlit walk along a tree-lined drive.
