Aldwark Derbyshire - Peak District. This Saxon name means 'Old Fort'

Aldwark, Derbyshire, is a small peak District hamlet founded in Saxon times. The name means 'Old Fort'. It lies close to Minninglow and was once a stagecoach staging post.

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Aldwark Farm
Aldwark Farm
People have lived in Aldwark (the name is Saxon meaning 'Old Fort') since ancient times and there are several Neolithic burial sites in the surrounding fields. Flint arrowheads have been found in these fields and the burial mound of Greenlow lies a short distance outside the hamlet. Minninglow, one of the most famous Neolithic burial sites in the area, lies only a mile away.

In the 18th century Aldwark was a busy staging post for stagecoaches plying the Buxton - Derby route, and had several inns, but these have all closed and now it is simply a quiet farming hamlet.

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Local places of interest

Gulliver's Kingdom

Gulliver's Kingdom is a theme park for young families, in a situation overlooking Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

Harboro Rocks

Harboro Rocks are an edge of magnesian limestone near Brassington, offering rock climbing and fantastic scenery. Harboro Cave was inhabited from the Ice Age.

Heights of Abraham

Heights of Abraham are a tourist centre with two show caves - Rutland Cavern and Great Masson Mine - plus a cable car and other attractions, above Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

High Peak Trail

The High Peak Trail takes the line of the former Cromford and High Peak Railway betwen Parsley Hey and Cromford, in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Lead Mining Museum, Matlock Bath

The Lead Mining Museum at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, is owned by the Peak District Mines Historical Society and is in the Pavilion Building alongside the River Derwent. They also run the nearby Temple Mine, where you can see what a lead mine was like.

Middleton Top

Middleton Top is the last surviving winding engine from the now defunct Cromford and High Peak Railway, near Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire Peak District.

National Stone Centre, Middleton by Wirksworth

The National Stone Centre, Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire, has geological displays, fossils, stone walling courses, panning for gems and other activities.

Robin Hood's Stride

Robin Hood's Stride is a spectacular tor of gritstone rocks perched on a ridge between Harthill Moor and the Alport-Winster road in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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