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Peak Time Travellers

Take a journey back in time

Peak District history leaps out at you from the ground. You can visit over 5,000 years of human life and death, discovering worlds that live on as archaeological monuments and historic buildings. Your journey takes you back in time from Victorian lead mines and Elizabethan country houses to prehistoric hillforts and the tombs of the first farmers. On the way, you’ll find Viking crosses and Roman forts. What’s more, this history speaks from some of the Peak’s most beautiful countryside, well-served by holiday accommodation, cafés and shops.

A picture of the Seven Stones

A picture of chambered tomb

A picture of the eyam cross

Downloadable Guides and Trails

Three Forts Trail

You can download a PDF self-guided trail to Mam Tor, Peveril Castle and Navio Roman fort. The trail links all three by public transport and has information on bus routes, how to obtain timetables online and how to use your mobile phone to text for the next departures. Travel back in time and leave the car at home!

Hope, Edale and Castleton

Short, one page walking guides of the three villages. There are the Edale Heritage trail, Castleton Historic Shopping trail and the Hope Village Historical trail.

Roystone Grange

A self-guided walk through time in this unpsoilt valley north of Bradbourne.

Gardom's Edge Audio Trail

Walk back in time from 19th century coal shafts to prehistoric rock art on Gardom's Edge (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Stanton Moor Audio Trail

Explore the many facets if this accessible moorland inlcuding Nine Ladies stone circle (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Burbage Valley Audio Trail

Take a trip through the Burbage Valley from pre-historic times until today with Macey, a 2nd Class Accredited Interpreter-Traveller with the Institute of Time Travellers (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Combs Moss Audio Trail

Climb onto breathtaking Combs Moss with Castle Naze hill (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Hathersage Audio Trail

Explore the ancient places of Hathersage along with some of its links with Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice as well as some of the village's (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Marsden Moor Audio Trail

Take a look at the footprint that people have left on the backbone of England. Follow in their footsteps, from Mesolithic people of 9,000 years BC to Blind Jack of Knaresborough building the turnpike roads (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).

Hope to Bamford Audio Trail

Take a stroll with a Roman medic, an Anglo-Saxon thane and ‘Dambuster’ Guy Gibson and discover a long and varied history in the Derwent and Hope Valleys. You will hear dramatic re-enactments from the past as your ghostly guides take you on this linear walk from Hope to Bamford (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).