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Out Now! The 2016 Peak District Visitor Guide, A quality lifestyle type brochure featuring the best places to visit and stay in the area.But this years edition has the added benefit of a picture of the cutest Jack Russel in the world - our Fudge! Page 40 highlights the best accessible places to eat, visit or stay in the Peak District showing how, not only do we live in the best National park, it is also the most accessible. and what better way to explore than on the Hoe Grange Boma 7 Fudge also says that we must not forget we also have the bes...
The Peak District is spectacular in Autumn and there are so many wonderful local walks. One of our favourites is along the Cromford canal to Whatstandwell to grab a bite to eat at the dog friendly Family Tree – they do the most amazing afternoon tea, 3 tiers of sandwiches, delicious home made cakes and cream scones, and a bowl of water for Fudge! Derbyshire has a diverse rich heritage and the Cromford Canal is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, which saw the birth of the industrial revolution. The Cromford Canal was const...
We are extremely lucky to have the Visit Peak District tourist board working hard on our behalf to promote our stunning and much treasured landscape. Last night David and I were invited to the premiere of the first ever Visit Peak District promotional television advert, #TheWorldAway, which looked fantastic on the big screen - it really makes you want to get out there and explore, and hopefully the advert will enthuse and encourage lots of new visitors to Derbyshire. The advert will be hitting the screens of Central and Anglia ITV regions fro...
Neville, one of our most frequent holiday guests, celebrated his birthday in style by exploring the farm fields and trekking along the High Peak Trail on our Boma 7 off-road wheelchair. Neville and his friend Bob have stayed with us at Hoe Grange numerous times over the past 5 years, taking advantage of our excellent accessible facilities, but have never ventured forth up to the trail as the hill is too steep to climb. Now with the aid of our fantastic new all-terrain wheelchair they both enjoyed fabulous panoramic views over the Derbyshire...
Derbyshire has been particularly hard hit with the recent bad weather. The large overnight snowfall of last Friday has been made worse by the terrific winds which have sculpted the snow into huge drifts which have blocked roads and made feeding and looking after the farm animals a trial. It is quite bizarre as the middle of the fields are slightly green with tufts of grass poking through the thin white blanket, yet the wall sides are piled high with snow that will take some shifting when the sun finally reappears. Snow drifts piled high Dail...