Hartington sits to the side of the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border and is known as the Gateway to the Dove. It also has claims to fame for its creamy Hartington Stilton Cheese as well as being the fictitious retirement home of Hilda Ogden!
Hartington is a traditional village with an old market square, duck pond and a local store with post office – not easy to find in this day and age!
Some of the bed and breakfast in Hartington properties are amongst the oldest in the village with a wealth of well-seasoned oak beams and roses around the door charm. Parsons House for example is a large but comfortable late Georgian country house where guests have ‘free range’ of the whole upper floor.
If you stay at a bed and breakfast in Hartington you must take a short walks across the fields to Dove Dale, one of the Peak District’s most spectacular and frequently visited dales. After only a mile or so you will come to a narrow gorge where a spire of rock rises up from the river – this is Pike Pool which is overlooked by a quaint little tower folly on the cliff top above, being a surviving relic of Berresford Hall which was the birthplace of Charles Cotton. Whilst in a little copse of trees by the waters edge is the fishing house which featured in Izaak Walton’s famous 17th century book ‘The Compleat Angler’.
Just a short drive away from your bed and breakfast in Hartington is the Manifold Valley, approached by a long road tunnel into a secret dale packed with caves, caverns and oozing with history and geology. Your stay at a bed and breakfast in Hartington could well be educational as well as enjoyable!
Some of the bed and breakfast in Hartington properties are located a short drive away from the village, such as Wolfscote Grange which is a farmstead that can date its history back to the Domesday Book.
Just over the hilltop is Parsley Hay, a lovely little hamlet where you can find Cotesfield Farm which is listed below under bed and breakfast in Hartington. Situated only 100 yards from the High Peak Trail, be sure to bring your bikes. If you don’t have one then don’t despair as there is a cycle hire centre a short walk away!
History abounds if you stay at a bed and breakfast in Hartington, but if you just want to enjoy the village as it is now, then a walk around the craft and gift shops, the little cheese factory shop or the pottery, followed by scones, jam and cream at one of the numerous tea rooms, will make your respite at a bed and breakfast in Hartington complete.
