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Quality - Period style - B & B
in the centre of Whaley Bridge in the High Peak of Derbyshire

For a some historical notes about Whaley Bridge try this site www.whaley.info

Whaley Bridge Links

This is a page of links to sites that somehow relate to Whaley Bridge or the Peak District. We intend to keep them up to date by regularly checking that they still work and adding new links as we come across them.
It would help us greatly if you would e-mail us if you find any of the links broken. and we would also appreciate it if you could let us know of any other sites that you think may be of interest. Just send the new or broken link(s) to us at web@whaleyspringbank.co.uk, you don't even need to include any comments if you don't feel like it.

Interesting sites about Whaley Bridge and the Peak District

View an old map of Whaley Bridge (search for 'Whaley Bridge' and then select 'Derbyshire' in preference to 'Cheshire')
http://www.old-maps.co.uk

Lots of wonderful aerial photos of Whaley. Well worth a visit.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/WebFlint/whaley/

Whaley Bridge Town Council web site
www.whaleybridge.com/

Description of Whaley Bridge with links to local shops and businesses.
www.peakleisure.co.uk/whaleybridge.htm

The official Peak Park website with all sorts of info.
www.peakdistrict-npa.gov.uk/

A brief description of the Goyt valley
www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/goyt.htm

This site has pictures of a walk along the canal from Bugsworth to Whaley
www.navigationinn.co.uk/towpath.htm

A commercial website concerned mainly with advertising but it does have useful lists of places to go and quite a lengthy a section on the history of the Peak District and a page about Buxton.
www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.com/

The Millennium Bridge on Whaley Moor
www.nmramblers.freeserve.co.uk/mbridge2.html

Pigot and Co`s 1835 Commercial Directory for Chapel-en-le-Frith with Whaley Bridge (Cheshire) and neighbourhoods
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/...chapel.htm

An interesting site about ancient monuments which includes a Saxon Cross in Whaley Bridge used to mark the boundary with Hope parish
web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/ctm/ctm-whaleybridge.htm

A bit about the murder stone on the road between Whaley and Disley.
www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/DBY/WhaleyBridge/MurderStone.html

This site has the history of the Peak Forest Canal and a virtual canal cruise from New Mills to Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth
www.penninewaterways.co.uk/peak/

A bit about the Peak Forest Canal
www.manchester2002-uk.com/transport/canals5.html

More canal Sites
www.southpenninering.co.uk/peakforest/
www.lock92.co.uk/
www.marple-uk.com/PeakFor.htm
www.newhorizons81.freeserve.co.uk/pfvt1.html

Places to visit and things to do

Buxton Opera House, Details of whats on and on-line booking
www.buxton-opera.co.uk

New Mills Heritage Centre
www.newmillsheritage.com//

An independent guide to Buxton
www.buxtononline.net/
which includes a Dove Holes, Combs, Buxton Walk
www.buxtononline.net/..../outdoor2.htm

Big site about walking. Have a look for walks around Whaley.
www.go4awalk.com

Useful and reference

Trent Bus timetables including:-
TransPeak
(Nottingham - Derby - Belper - Matlock - Bakewell - Buxton - Stockport - Manchester)
and Skyline
(Buxton - Whaley Bridge - Disley - Hazel Grove - Stockport - Manchester airport)
www.bartonbuses.co.uk/timetables/highpeak.html
www.scbeastmidstravel.co.uk/TPTimetable.html

Derbyshire County Council
www.derbyshire.gov.uk

High Peak Borough Council Tourism & Leisure section
www.highpeak.gov.uk/tourism

Local organisations

George Hill's shoe shop now magnanimously turned into a community drop-in center offering companionship, coffee, books and training to all. www.whaleyfootsteps.co.uk

High Peak Orchestra, based in the Whaley Bridge, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton area.
www.hpo.ukgo.com

St Johns Ambulance Brigade
www.derbyshire.sja.org.uk

Whaley Bridge Guides
www.whaley-guides.fsnet.co.uk

High Peak Scouts
www.highpeakscouts.org.uk

Whaley Bridge Rose Queen Carnival. Run by a friend of ours
www.rosequeen.co.uk

Whaley Hall. A Christian retreat and community just up the road from us.
www.whaleyhallckl.org.uk

Whaley Bridge Amenity Society.
Not much of interest at the moment but they have produced some interesting booklets so you never know what they may yet put on their site.
users.breathemail.net/wbas

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Springbank Guesthouse

3 Reservoir Road, Whaley Bridge, High Peak, England, SK23 7BL
tel: 01663 732819
margot@whaleyspringbank.co.uk