May 10th 08 - Day out in Derbyshire

While Mum and Dad were out for the day Chris and I decided to take a drive out into Derbyshire in search of photos to take. We stopped off at a couple of the old mills in the area, first Arkwrights near Matlock then onto Belper. Both are very impressive buildings and you can only imagine what they would have been like in full production all those years ago. You get a real sense of history just looking at them.

Then we went off for lunch at a pub called The Devonshire Arms at Beeley on the Chatsworth Estate. We'd seen a review of it in The Times that morning and thought as we'd be in the area we may as well stop there for lunch. It's a lovely place, very cosy and well maintained. The food was excellent and to a very high standard. Prices aren't cheap but if you don't go there too often it represents very good value for money. I'll certainly go again when in that neck of the woods.

Our drove back home took us past the Chatsworth Estate so we stopped on one of the hills overlooking the main house and took some photos. The weather was beautiful, as it had been all day, so it was lovely sitting there in the sun. The Chatsworth Estate was very busy, probably due to the Nissan International Horse Trials that were on at the time.