We’re back at Bakewell for the Monday Market on 9th December 2025: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, landscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
We’re back at Bakewell for the Monday Market on 2nd December 2025: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, landscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
We’re back at Bakewell for the Monday market on 25th November 2025: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, landscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
We’re back at Bakewell for the Monday market on 18th November 2024: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, landscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
We’re back at Bakewell for the Monday market: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, landscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
Our first trip to Bakewell for the Monday market: 9am – 4pm.
We hope to be there weekly until Christmas with our usual cards, prints, framed prints and coasters celebrating Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire: the natural world, lanscape, wildlife and seascapes.
Please come and give some support if you are near!
This was a circular walk starting in the village of Biggin in the Peak District, through Biggin Dale to the River Dove, south by the river and then cross country to the Tissington Trail and then north, finally cross-country west back to Biggin.
Here’s a map of the route and GPX file you can download – click on more details to get it:
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I parked opposite The Waterloo Inn facing west. Then it’s a short road walk to Biggin Dale – watch out for some traffic and some sharp bends, although it’s mostly quiet.
Then you can see the River Dove in the distance…
It’s a lovely walk down the river heading south:
Until you get to this cottage, if a cottage is what it is? I then turned west to get to the Tissington Trail… it’s well signposted!
Then a fabulous cross-country wal, with decent paths:
Then it’s simply up the ramp and walk north up the Tissington Trail until you get to the exit for Biggin itself.
Because I’ve walked this route before, you’ll find better pictures here.
I actually chose to walk across fields back to Biggin but please be wary, especially if there are cows with calves. They can be aggressive if they think you are too near their babies!
I foolishly didn’t bring a spare battery for my camera, so you’ll have to take the rest of the walk yourself?
I thoroughly recommend a walk through Biggin Dale and alongside the Rover Dove.
As you may have noticed, I’ve started to use an Image Slider for pictures. It’s easier for me to do than adding lots and lots of individual pictures and it gives a break between sections of the walk. Feedback about how useful it is for readers is welcome…
And lastly, some videos of the day:
We’re also at Mickleover Summer Fete 2024 on Sunday 26th May 2024, 3pm to 6.30pm. It’ll take place on The Parade in Mickleover, Derby DE3 0GB.
We’ll have lots of greeting cards, prints, art and photography inspired by nature and the natural world.
This was a lovely walk from Creswell Crags (which I’m very fond of) to the centre of Worksop, going through the Welbeck Estate. It’s a mixture of forest, farmland and some beautiful wild sections.
Creswell Crags is easily accessible from the M1 Motorway at Junction 30 – follow the signs for ‘Creswell Crags’ and you can’t go wrong. Creswell Railway station if you fancy the train or the no. 77 bus between Chesterfield and Worksop.
Try the Traveline website for further information about bus and train options.
I got there fairly early as the forecast was very favourable. We’ve had utterly miserable weather with rain, strong winds and even thunder and lightning the past couple of weeks. Those slate grey skies are not a delight!
At 6am the sun is just coming up and it’s a treat to see the sun move so quickly into the heavens…
Then it’s out of the Crags and heading east.
Then it’s over the A60 (take care as it can be busy!) and you’re on the Robin Hood Way. It’s quite a confusing and winding route with many offshoots, so take a look here for ideas to walk it.
Still heading east with the main estate house to the south:
It’s a wonderfully peaceful section with no-one about. remember that there’s a lot of restrictions where you can walk and the Welbeck Estate owners provide lots of helpful red signs to keep you where they want you to be.
Then it’s out into farmland with wonderful ‘big skies’:
And then into a section of managed forest… with one last look back at the skies:
The lake is beautiful and full of birds, geese especially making their prescence known.
The lake area also gives views of the sky. I’m a big fan of clouds and I thought the fomrations were beautiful!
The video below probably does it more justice?
And then onwards easterly…
I think this might be an old gatehouse with the cottage next to it for the gatekeeper? Apologies for my shadow but you can’t do much about that with a low sun in the sky.
A nice bit of forest but apart from the bluebells, there’s not a lot of nature here – it’s all pine trees for logging, I think? Very sterile and quiet – no bird song at all.
It’s quite a relief to be in open country again. There were skylarks everywhere singing and flying about. Othere birds too but they much to quick for me to take pictures. I enjoyed the riot of different birdson though.
This was another area with ‘big skies’ and I loved all the difefrent sorts of cluds forming from the west:
The last section wasn’t so nice. You have to cross the busy A57 road southwest of Worsop. Fortunately it’s not a dual carriageway and there were gaps in traffic. Then you run for it!
I’m not so keen on these huge lorries, to be honest?
Once over the road, you’re into urban Worksop. There the beautiful countryside and vistas end and it’s housing and finally the town centre. I caught the no. 77 from Worksop bus station to Creswell and then walked back to Creswell Crags.
Try the Traveline website for further information about bus and train options.
But not before ruining all my healthy walking with a large fried breakfast with black pudding and lots of coffee:
This was a very short walk at around three miles. I haven’t had time to do much this year, what with one thing and another.
Creswell Crags is a site of special scientific interest. People (in one shape or another) have been visiting for 50,000 years, starting with Neanderthals in the last Ice Age. You can find a lot more about the area here, particularly about the cave art created by its residents.
You can get to Creswell Crags by train to Creswell (Robin Hood Line) and a twenty minute walk or by car: it’s very well sign-posted from Junction 30 of the M1.
It’s also a lovely place to go and wander around and I was lucky that it was an unseasonably warm and sunny day. I haven’t done the place any justice and I’ll have to go back some time to take some proper photos.
Then a view detour to admire the skies near the Crags…
