Wednesday was another fine day at our Bolehill Cottages near Bakewell (see link).  No arrivals or departures so a quiet day with time to plant out more bedding plants.  Discovered I was missing a vital ingredient for lunch so we cheated and went to the tea rooms at Ashford.  As they allow dogs in the garden we took our two with us and enjoyed the lunch time warmth.  Despite a forecast of potential showers none materialised although it did cloud over from time to time.  In the evening I collected Joanna and we went to the Village Hall for our monthly WI meeting.  Our speaker was a local master farrier who gave us a very interesting and amusing talk of his life as a farrier.  We have also arranged to visit his museum in September.  Thursday was also forecast to be a fine day and I had planned a walk as we had no arrivals or departures. The walk in a book was described as stimulating!  We parked at the Matlock town car park near Sainsbury’s then walked a few yards up Snitterton Road, over the railway bridge and then we were into open countryside.  With a climb ahead we had views back to Matlock and over to Riber Castle.  The path followed the contour of the hillside and although wooded for a while we could still get glimpses of the Derwent Valley below and High Tor on the other side.  The path came out on a lane above Matlock Bath and the first building we came across a private chapel.  We went to investigate and found a group were being given a tour so we were able to have a quick look round. From here we picked up another woodland path that passed under the cable car to the Heights of Abraham and came out at the hamlet of Upperwood.  We walked along the lane until we picked up another path which started us on our return journey.  We stopped for lunch in a field looking up to Black Rocks at Cromford.  The path bought us out at Bonsall where we picked up another lane back to a path through woodland that emerged at the top of the Heights of Abraham.  We stopped and looked at the new viewing platform and views before continuing back to Matlock.  After this long walk on a fine day we stopped at a farm just outside Matlock for an ice cream then we called in at Bolehill’s former owners for a chat.  Back home they had been taking advantage of the warm weather and had commenced silaging. Enjoy the photos.