You can become familiar with a hundred of different districts and cottages each of which preserves certain air of honour and each has its own history. Sometimes it seems as if every cottage has its own personality and touch of character since they make people behave differently in every one of them. Most of those cottages are situated in Bakewell, once a really great and major medieval centre. Thus, it has plenty to offer its visitors as to hiking, horse riding, hand gliding, paragliding, fishing, cycling and lots more. There are many famous historic castles, for example, Chatsworth and Hadden Hall. Rutland Arms is another quite famous mansion. They say that in the year 1811 famous writer Jane Austin once stayed at Bakewell in that castle. It is also a legend about the Rutland Arms according to which it was the place in where Bakewell Pudding first appeared. To be honest it appeared as a result of negligence in 1859 but Englishmen swiftly announced that mouth-watering piece of cake as Bakewell culinary marvel. Since, being a marvel, the original recipe of world’s famous Bakewell tarts disappeared, perhaps, again due to men’s negligence. Nowadays, everyone can buy those famous delicious tarts in every restaurant, cafe or confectionary by every castle of Bakewell market, which was first established in 1254 on Monday and since works as clockwork every Monday till now.
In case you are a chocolate fan then Castleton will become a true paradise for you. There you can come across different types and sorts of chocolate packed and represented in different ways. There you can get a tint of chocolate biscuits cooked in accordance with medieval recipe, or have fun in solving chocolate jigsaw of different sizes. But Castleton does not have only chocolate as its only entertainment. Castleton is also associated with beautiful caves, such as the Speedwell Cavern, Treak Cavern, Peak Cavern and Blue John Cavern. Just for the record, Treak Cavern and Blue John Cavern have certain soft yellow and blue fluorspar which local citizens use in crafts for ornaments and jewellery. But during winter time all of them are closed due to danger for visitors, they mostly lay in water and are not safe to hike and explore. Thus, winter is for the chocolate fun only.
For the lovers of architecture Ashbourne is a real discovery. Gregorian epoch rests on every building in that town and famous Alton Towers can tell volumes for those who know how to ask. It was another major medieval trade centre after Bakewell and has its own market days, namely Saturdays and Thursdays.
If you head in the north east of the Peak District National Park on the Derwent valley you will enter into the town of Harthesage, a picturesque town thirty miles away from Buxton. It can offer you another pace along medieval stones and legends, historic squares and market days, horse riding and main road out to Sheffield, cosy city which will return you to certain extend back to modern urban state of mind. However, one can never forget that beauty of diving into few centuries past and experience through its air, thus, Peak District is worth seeing and spending time to have rest from modern fussy lives.
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