If you want to stay in the highest village in Derbyshire, then look no further than a bed and breakfast in Chelmorton! Here you can also find the highest Parish Church in England, where the graveyard is as close to heaven as it is possible to be for your final resting place.
Be careful if you ask for a drink of local spring water when staying at your bed and breakfast in Chelmorton, as the little stream which runs off Chelmorton Low is strangely named Illy Willy Water!
Chelmorton is a one street village, surrounded by some of the oldest field systems in the county. Centuries ago each cottage would have been a smallholding with a croft behind and possibly a little stone outbuilding to hold a cow or two.
Shallow Grange on the outskirts of the village offers bed and breakfast in Chelmorton in oak-beamed bedrooms on this 110-acre farm.
If you prefer to stay within the village, then your bed and breakfast in Chelmorton could be at the Church Inn which is the only pub. Formerly known as The Blacksmith’s Arms, this 17th century hostelry has been a member of CAMRA for 5 years running, and you are therefore guaranteed a decent pint and not far to stagger afterwards to your bed and breakfast in Chelmorton
There are lots of paths and tracks from your bed and breakfast in Chelmorton which take you through some of the loveliest White Peak countryside. Behind the church is a particularly nice path up to Chelmorton Low where wild pansies flower in the spring amid the dips and hollows of an old lead mine. Five Wells tumuli is a short walk away, where you can follow a concessionary path to visit this ancient burial ground and see far reaching views over north Derbyshire.
Down at the bottom end of the village is Townend Farm, affectionately referred to by some as Chelmorton Hall, which is the oldest building in the village and dates from 1634.
A few minutes drive from your bed and breakfast in Chelmorton will take you to the old spa town of Buxton which retains many of its wonderful Victorian features and ranks as the cultural capital of the Peak District .
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