Buxton - Peak District Villages

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http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk Presents the new Buxton video covering the beautiful places to see and visit in this town. The Derbyshire Peak District market town of Buxton has a number of claims to fame; as well as being the Capital of the High Peak, it is also at over 1000ft above sea-level the highest town of its size in England, and has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries, venerated by those who have come for the reputedly magical curative powers of its Spa waters. Buxton History Our Neolithic ancestors had already populated the surrounding hills, leaving the marks of their passing at ancient gathering places like the Bull Ring, and at nearby Arbor Low over three thousand years before the Romans arrived in 70 AD and founded the settlement which they called Aqua Arnemeteia, meaning, "The Waters of the Goddess of the Grove. These sacred waters of the Goddess include the wonderful River Wye, the most delightful of Derbyshire rivers which rises at Axe Edge, and filters down through Featherbed Moss on it's way to collect the Burbage Brook, before running culverted beneath the streets of modern Buxton and cavorting in gurgling leaps and cascades down through Ashwood Dale. Buxton is built on a series of small hills and the grassy slopes in the middle of town lend themselves to relaxation, providing an excellent vantage point from which to view the town, with Serpentine Walks and shaded seating areas along the banks of the Wye through Ashwood Park, to the east of Spring Gardens. The Romans built baths here above the thermal waters of what later became St. Anne's Well, famously visited by medieval pilgrims seeking a cure for their ills, and popularised further in Tudor times by Mary Queen of Scots who took its healing waters as a cure for her rheumatism whilst being held captive at Chatsworth by the Earl of Shrewsbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st. The town's growth and prosperity were assured from the eighteenth century by the addition of its remarkable wealth of architecture, courtesy of the Fifth Duke of Devonshire who engaged John Carr to build the magnificent Georgian Crescent, rivalling and imitating the famous Crescent at Bath in Somerset. Carr of York was also responsible for the Devonshire Hospital which was originally designed & constructed as a Riding School for the Duke of Devonshire at the end of the 18th century. It became a hospital in 1859, and it's huge dome, which is the largest unsupported slate dome in the world was added in 1881, the area beneath was used for the exercise of patients in rehabilitation.In recent years the building has become home to the University of Derby. Buxton was confirmed as a centre of excellence and culture, becoming a retreat and country holiday resort for the gentry during the Victorian era with the advent of public travel and communication. Once again the Duke of Devonshire had a major hand in development and many large hotels were built to cater for the influx of visitors when the railways came to town, and the Pavilion Gardens were laid out and opened in 1871. The twenty three acres of the Pavilion Gardens includes ornamental lakes, putting greens, children's play areas with a paddling pool and miniature railway, whilst the whole is dotted with colourful arbours and flower beds, with shaded walks beneath mature trees, and the gardens are a sheer delight in the summer. Places we recommend : Knotlow Farm - Camping And Caravanning Site http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-camping-caravanning-knotlow-farm-flagg-nr-buxton-i1349.html The Westminster Hotel http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-hotels-the-westminster-hotel-buxton-i242.html Buxton Opera House http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk Wild Park Brailsford http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-things-to-do-wild-park-brailsford-ashbourne/l301.html Little Rascals Indoor Play Centre http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-childrens-activities-little-rascals-indoor-playarea-buxton/l1251.html Hargate Hall Self Catering Apartments http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/accommodation/apartments/peak-district-apartments-hargate-hall-wormhill-nr-buxton/l338.html Poole's Cavern http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-attractions-pooles-cavern-buxton-i1044.html Please also see more information on the new site http://www.peakdistrictvillages.co.uk Peak District Edge Hotel http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/peak-district-hotels-peak-edge-hotel-stone-edge-chesterfield-i3631.html