Ashbourne - Peak District Villages
www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk Peak District Villages - Ashbourne The pleasant market town of Ashbourne is known as the Gateway to Dovedale, one of Derbyshire's most picturesque and beautiful dales - and perhaps its most visited! The town is also generally regarded as the southern entrance to the beautiful and varied landscape of Derbyshire's White Peak area and lies about ten miles to the south of the Peak District National Park. Author James Croston writing in 1868 described Ashbourne as "One of the most agreeable country towns in the kingdom, and went on to wax lyrical about the attractions of the place: "There is such an air of staid, old fashioned comfort and respectability about it; at the first glance you would imagine it to be an ancient ecclesiastical city, and this idea is strengthened on beholding its magnificent Gothic church which is quite cathedral-like in its proportions. The buildings too have a venerable and stately appearance that well accords with the dignity of such a place and ever and anon as you pass along your eye is caught by some quaintly mullioned window, or old projecting gable"ý. Today Ashbourne is little changed and remains one of the most agreeable country towns in the kingdom, and it still gives an impression to the visitor of a rather venerable, stately, and very respectable market town with an interesting history and excellent recreational and shopping facilities. For more on this village and many others please visit the new Peak District online site www.peakdistrictvillages.co.uk/ashbourne-c89.html Peak District Online Recommends Heights of Abraham www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/heights-of-abraham-c1762.html Peak District Camping and Caravanning - Upper Hurst Farm Holiday Park - Hartington www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-camping-and-caravanning-upper-hurst-farm-holiday-park-hartington-i5406.html Wild Park Brailsford www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-things-to-do-wild-park-brailsford-ashbourne/l301.html Peak District Pods www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-camping-caravanning-alsop-rivendale-ltd-ashbourne-i396.html
