Hathersage is one of the Peak District’s largest villages, but still retains its character and charm. To stay at a holiday cottage in Hathersage will give you easy access to dramatic countryside, oodles of history and lots of shops, restaurants and leisure facilities.
Situated around a junction of main roads, Hathersage is an ideal base to explore the Hope Valley, Derwent Valley or the moors and high ground to Sheffield.
Hathersage still retains its open air swimming pool – after a quick dip you might want to rush back to your holiday cottage in Hathersage to warm up and thaw out!
To stay at a holiday cottage in Hathersage certainly means lots of choice and no chance to be bored!
Hathersage is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the Bronte sisters, as this was the village upon which Morton was based in the classical novel Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte stayed at the Vicarage as a young girl which filled her with inspiration. Your stay at a holiday cottage in Hathersage could well be inspiring too!
Your holiday cottage in Hathersage may look out towards the Church of St Michael’s where it is possible to visit the grave of Little John, friend and companion to Robin Hood who was reputedly born at Loxley just over the moors.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Hathersage was a thriving industrial centre, manufacturing anything from pins and needles to buttons, but it was way back in 1566 that Christopher Schutz came from Germany and set up an iron works here to draw wire for sieves used to wash lead ore which was extensively mined in Derbyshire at that time.
Many of the industrial sites and buildings in Hathersage have long since gone, or have been converted into other forms of accommodation, but it is highly likely that some of the holiday cottages in Hathersage were either factory or mill workers cottages, or may even have been part of the mills themselves.
Holiday Cottages in Hathersage come in all shapes and sizes, but if you fancy a family get together or a gathering of the clan, then be sure to read about Sladen Cottage. This spacious holiday cottage in Hathersage can sleep up to 14 people – enough for a party!