Browse through our blog posts to find out what life is like at Hoe Grange Holidays along with some great ideas for days out in the Peak District.
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Double Whammy!
April 3, 2013
Accessible Holidays, Awards, Derbyshire, Off-road wheelchair, Peak District, Renewable energy, self catering holiday, Tourism, Wind turbine,Great news! Hoe Grange Holidays has been shortlisted as finalists in the National Visit England Exellence Awards 2013. This is the third year running that we have made the finals of what is known as the "Tourism Oscars". In 2011 we won the Gold Award in the Access for All category, then 2012 saw us win Silver in the Sustainable Tourism category. Double delight this year as we have been selected as finalists in both of these categories! Judges were impressed by the ongoing development of our self-catering holiday business: our investment in s...
Bye Bye Belties
March 11, 2013
Accessible Holidays, Animals, Cows, Derbyshire, Farm, Food and drink, Peak District, self catering holiday, Tourism,Following our recent clear TB test we have now started to sell some of the beef animals. The first to go were some of our Belted Galloways who are about 18 months old. Having never sold any of this breed before I was a little unsure of the price to expect at market. The recent horse meat scandal has made a positive impact on the live trade in beef animals as more and more people realise what we have known for years - that local British beef is the best and the more local the better. In the Peak District many of the independent high street butc...
Twittertastic!
December 4, 2012
Accessible Holidays, Awards, Off-road wheelchair, Peak District, Tourism,We are so proud to have been selected a as an #SBS (Small Business Sunday) winner this week by business guru Theo Paphitis on Twitter. Theo selects 6 Tweets each week that catch his eye. @TheoPaphitis then re-Tweets them to his 300,000+ followers giving an instant publicity rush to the small business selected. If only 10% of them re Tweet to 500 followers each, that's another 15 million people who know about our new venture. Not bad for a 140 charecter Tweet that was free! If it then gets re Tweeted again the numbers become unbelievable. Feli...
Access the countryside
November 29, 2012
Accessible Holidays, Cycling, Derbyshire, Family, Off-road wheelchair, Peak District, self catering holiday,Exciting news! Our fantastic new Boma 7 off-road wheelchair has arrived. Access the countryside with our off-road wheelchair We have for sometime been looking for a suitable way for our less able holiday guests to trek up the farm fields and access the High Peak Trail, which affords fabulous views of the Derbyshire countryside. We were enthralled when we found the Boma 7 all-terrain electrically powered wheelchair developed and manufactured by Molten Rock. It is an ideal machine as it has a low centre of gravity, is simple and safe to operat...
Today’s News
August 25, 2012
Accessible Holidays, Derbyshire, Eco, Horse Holidays, Peak District, Tourism,The old expression goes that today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrapper, we certainly hope that with the advent of the web this is no longer the case ! The reason? well quite unexpectedly we were featured in The Guardian newspaper today. Our resident artist, Roger Allen, was exhibiting his paintings at Ilam Hall and during a lull in visitors he stumbled across a fabulous review of Hoe Grange Holidays in the Travel section. Our accessible holidays are mentioned in the Guardians Readers' Tips by one of our past guests! It was a wonderf...







