#The George Hathersage

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Discover The George Hathersage: Legendary Food, Drink, and Hospitality in the Peak District

Experience the charm of The George in Hathersage, a contemporary coaching inn nestled in the heart of Derbyshire's Peak District. Enjoy legendary food and drink, warm local hospitality, and stylish boutique bedrooms in a beautifully restored 500-year-old building. Visit The George for a relaxed and memorable stay in Hope Valley.

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Day 3 Tideswell

An early start as the three children came in for their breakfast before I accompanied Greg on the school run. This takes about an hour as Sophie and George are dropped off at Longstone and Amelia at Baslow. The morning was fine but 14-16 degrees. I had a sweater on but was amazed as the parents / grandparents dropping of fthe children were in short sleeves/sleveess and even shorts!

After a reviving morning coffee , Greg ,Diane and I drove through Grindelford a town very popular (like many around here with walkers and climbers) to Longshaw Estate. This was previously the hunting lodge of the Duke of Rutland but is now owed by the National Trust.It hosts sheepdog trial which are supposed to be the oldest to be run every year in England. There are a number of walks and we did one which allowed some wonderful views of the surrounding Hope Valley.We took a different route home through Hathersage . Hathersage is most famous for the grave of Little John and the Jane Eyre Hathersage Trail.

Lunch was at The Anchor,Inn a local Tideswell pub that has recebntly been refurbished in a very sympathetic style. . I have visited this pub on every visit to to Tideswell and watched it change over the years. The pub was first licensed in 1699 and Diane's grandfather was a licensee in the 1960s.

After an afternoon nap due to jet lag or maybe the wines at lunch ,I had a visit from Sophie and George before they went to their weekly Taekwondo and then we headed off to The George for the weekly Quiz Night.

This quiz night alternates between The George ( incidentally Diane's grandfather was a former licensee of this pub also) and The Star .It takes the form of one local compiling the questions and everyone calling out the answer . The "winner" is the first to answer. All were amused when I won two of the three question on royals . I also won a question about Rugby World Cups. However the whole evening is not a competitive event just as excuse for the locals , most of whom are incomers to he village to have a drink and chat. I had trouble understanding many of them with a combination of Derbyhire. Sheffield , Yorkshire accents.

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From January 9, 2023 to Feb 3, 2023 we will be closed at The Maynard while we work on some exciting renovations and updates. Don't worry though - our sister venue, The George Hathersage will be open with some delicious dining discounts for you.

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It's hello to John and goodbye to Eric

It’s hello to John and goodbye to Eric

Changes at two Hathersage venues. MARTIN DAWES reports John Parsons: back in Hathersage JOHN PARSONS has taken over as head chef of Hathersage Social restaurant, replacing Cary Brown who has left to pursue a new venture in Sheffield. Cary enigmatically announced on Facebook that the business, previously known as Earnshaw & Brown at Hathersage Social was now simply Earnshaw. For John,…

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fallen London | Echo Bazaar Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: The Jovial Contrarian & Emilia Hathersage (Fallen London), The Jovial Contrarian/Sinning Jenny (Fallen London) Characters: The Jovial Contrarian (Fallen London), April of the Calendar Council (Fallen London), Sinning Jenny (Fallen London), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Additional Tags: Character Study, Fallen London, Canon Disabled Character, platonic marriage, Neurodiversity, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Friendship, Arranged Marriage, Childhood, i once joked that his first name was actually august but then i got attached to it, The Hegelian Dialectic Summary:

"In philosophy and rhetoric, eristic (from Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of chaos, strife, and discord) refers to argument that aims to successfully dispute another's argument, rather than searching for truth. According to T.H. Irwin, "It is characteristic of the eristic to think of some arguments as a way of defeating the other side, by showing that an opponent must assent to the negation of what he initially took himself to believe." Eristic is arguing for the sake of conflict, as opposed to resolving conflict."

A fixture of high Society, the Jovial Contrarian is much admired and little loved. The story of his life is a dialectic with no synthesis.

A bit of a character study that got out of hand, with gratuitously self-indulgent characterization.

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There must be a hundred or more places amongst the landscapes of the Peak District National Park and South Yorkshire that could be rated as my ‘favourite’.However the one I have selected isn’t a valley, peak, river, or traditional 'honeypot' location. Rather it is a small hole in the gritstone of the Stane Edge.

I have history with caves (albeit not in a speleological way).. Growing up i was an avid reader of the literature of adventure, I came across the story of Millican Dalton. Fed up with the ‘rat race’ in 1903, Dalton,a pacifist, vegetarian, teetotaller, gave up his London based life as an insurance clerk and went to live in Borrowdale, Cumbria, in what become known as ‘The Cave Hotel’ high up on the slopes above Grange. From there he offered camping and adventure holidays, and is widely regarded as one of the first providers of professional outdoor instruction in this country. His business cards described him as the ‘Professor of Adventure’. I spent a Summer in the early 90’s as a resident of the ‘Hotel’. It offered shelter, quiet, and a place to order ones thoughts. Those qualities are also available at my local favourite place - Robin Hoods Cave. Place name and associated legend abound in the countryside, and the origins of RHC are suitable clouded in folklore. Ws Robin Hood ever there (noting the grave of his sidekick in nearby Hathersage ?), or did George Eyre, the long term tenant of North Lees, rename Sled House to fit in to the fantasy of Robin Hood and Little John. The pre-enclosure map of the Edge shows the Cave as Sled House. Sleds were used to bring peat and stone from the Edge to Hathersage.

For clarity, and I know the old maps include the belevedere as part of the Sled, and ergo part of the Cave, I think of the Cave as being the triangular shaped hole in the crag that, if you're a climber, 'Tea Leaf Crack' VD goes to the mouth of. I'm not convinced Robin and John would have hidden very well on the gritstones shelves off to the right !

In the Summer months, as i womble along the Edge, i'll climb down to the cave and have to climb out with a bin bag full of the detritus of barbecues and such like, such is the popularity of the cave. Climbing has taken place on the Edge since late Victorian times, and it is likely that the humans used the caves there as far back as Neolithic times. Some residents are just less respectful of the cave than others. If i had to pick favourite times to be in the favourite place it would be either, outside of the key climbing season, waking from a bivvy to sit on the lip of the cave with a brew and watching the wildlife, or perhaps in really foul winter weather, ensconced in lots of layers watching the rain or snows lash the Edge. I was there on a few of the storm-with-a-name weekends of late, brew in hand, busy doing nothing ....

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Peak’s quirky cows hit the heights

Life-size model cows that wowed both the judges and the crowds at the first-ever RHS Chatsworth Flower Show have found the perfect home and will stay together as a herd in the Peak District and Derbyshire.

Three beautiful beasts – all eye-catching features in official tourist board Marketing Peak District & Derbyshire’s Silver-Gilt Medal winning show garden – have been put out to pasture at The Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath.

The quirky cows – sprayed in metallic colours and ‘branded’ with a blue and white hand-painted circular motif – are destined to be a whimsical talking point for visitors at Derbyshire’s oldest tourist attraction high above the Derwent Valley.

The Heights of Abraham director Rupert Pugh said: “We are delighted that we are able to welcome all three of the quirky cows and keep them in the Peak District. We hope that visitors to The Heights will enjoy the opportunity to see these contemporary, captivating sculptures for many years to come.

“With the main access to The Heights via cable car, it’s certainly been a challenge to transport the cows safely to the top – a very unusual load and not something you would expect to see travelling across the A6!”

Jo Dilley, managing director, Marketing Peak District & Derbyshire, added: “It’s great news that the cows, which were a real talking point throughout the RHS Chatsworth show, will stay together on home soil so that even more people who come to the area in future can enjoy them.

“We’re really grateful to The Heights of Abraham for giving them long-term grazing rights in one of the most scenic locations in the area.”

RHS Chelsea Flower Show award winning designer Lee Bestall, who designed the tourist board’s Experience Peak District & Derbyshire show garden at Chatsworth (June 7 to 11), was inspired to include the cows after reading a comment by Sir George Sitwell that white cows could be made more interesting if painted with a blue pattern.

One of the cows is sprayed copper, another chrome/silver and the third gold, based on an original concept by Hathersage-based artists Becky Pytches and Rob Hopper. University intern Marion Leclerc (21) from Nantes, France, currently working with Lee and his team at Bestall & Co, then hand-painted a Willow pattern inspired ‘brand’ on the rump of each animal.

Meanwhile the show garden – featuring wild flower strewn meadows leading via a mown path and stone ha-ha to clipped topiary and herbaceous planting favoured by the area’s great country houses – is also flourishing.

It has been recreated at Renishaw Hall & Gardens, north Derbyshire by Lee and his team – all of whom are based there – to attract and inspire even more garden and plant lovers in the future.

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Regional guide to the Peak District

From heathery moors to rolling hills and underground caverns, the Peak District is home to some of the most majestic landscapes in the country

In the Peak District, heritage takes different forms. Britain is home to 15 National Parks, and the oldest of them is found right here. This much-loved swathe of the Midlands, covering some 555 square miles of dramatic hill terrain, was the very first National Park to be created, back in 1951. To many minds, it still belongs at the top of the pile.

Illustration: Michael Hill

But the history of the Peak District extends way beyond a mid-20th-century assignation. Neanderthal stone tools have been found in its caves, Bronze Age burial mounds still hunch on its ridges and the remnants of age-old hillforts litter its slopes. The Romans came here too, setting out roads and mining for lead, an abundant mineral which later brought fortune to local landowners. The end result is an area dotted with grand stately homes and ancient remains, all of them dwarfed by the wide-open wonders of the landscape itself.  

Looked at on the map, unfurled in the green space between Sheffield, Derby and Manchester, the region can be divided into two quite separate areas. The northern half of the National Park, sitting on gritstone rock and characterised by high areas of open moorland, is known as the Dark Peak. The southern half, formed of limestone and playing home to gentle dales, burbling rivers and ash woodland, is known as the White Peak.

Both are fascinating in their own right. The Dark Peak contains the iconic plateau of Kinder Scout, where a mass trespass of 500 walkers in 1932 led to a change in the laws regarding access rights, something the country as a whole still benefits from today. Of the two, however, it’s the White Peak which holds more appeal for the first-time visitor, not least because of the variety of its attractions. 

Many of these places of interest are manmade. The wider region contains history-rich market towns like Bakewell, home to the famed pudding of the same name, and Buxton, once a fashionable spa resort and still renowned for its spring water. You’ll also find fascinating little villages such as Eyam, famously cut off from the outside world by a 17th-century plague outbreak, and Youlgreave, one of many settlements that still practices well dressing, a local tradition of decorating wells with flowers and other natural materials a few weeks after Easter.

Dovedale is known for its stepping stones and meandering river. Credit: Alan Novelli/Alamy

Tucked among the Peak District’s rolling hills, meanwhile, are some of the finest stately homes in central England. Top of the list is surely spectacular Chatsworth House, where more than 100 acres of gardens surround a truly grand residence which has passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family. Its art collection alone – spanning four millennia – means it should be part of any Peak District itinerary, and Capability Brown himself had a hand in the layout of the gardens.

But Chatsworth is just the start. The region also holds the Elizabethan masterwork that is Hardwick Hall – where the windows are so numerous it’s often described as “more glass than wall” – and the crenellated medieval majesty of Haddon Hall, which has starred on screen in both Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. Lyme Park, once a hunting lodge and still an imposing stately home, is another gem with extensive grounds.

By way of contrast to these mighty mansions rising from the land, the White Peak also has large-scale attractions underground. Poole’s Cavern near Buxton is home to vast subterranean chambers, and the show caves around the town of Castleton – so named for the ruined 11th-century castle that still stands here – provide more of the same.

Haddon Hall has been famous for its roses since Elizabethan times

Some of these, such as Treak Hill Cavern and Blue John Cavern, grant access to natural netherworlds of rare rock types and age-old stalactites and stalagmites. Others, including Speedwell Cavern and Peak Cavern – the latter, incidentally, also known as The Devil’s Arse – give insight into the underground industry and mining practices that have been a part of Peak District life for so long. 

The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, was so impressed by the scale and extent of the mines and caves beneath the region that he pronounced “all this country is hollow – could you strike it with some gigantic hammer it would boom like a drum.” It’s known that the author once stayed at Castleton, and the fact that he later set a story in the area shows that the formations above ground made no less of an impression.

Not far from Castleton is the great shapely hill of Mam Tor, arguably the best-known summit in the National Park. Once the site of a hillfort, its 517-metre-high top can be reached with relative ease via a paved footpath. Being roughly at the centre of the entire region, it grants deep views in every direction. If you’re in the mood for continuing the walk, the Great Ridge carries on from Mam Tor, eventually rising to meet Lose Hill, a popular hike of around 2.5 miles each way.

Once a spa resort, Buxton is renowned for its spring water. Credit: Ian Hubball/Alamy

The Peak District is full of more challenging outdoor options, from the climbing hotspot of the Stanage Edge escarpment to long-distance treks such as the Pennine Way, which begins here in the mellow little village of Edale. If you’d rather sample the scenery in a more sedate manner, however, the options are just as numerous. 

The three adjoining reservoirs of Ladybower, Derwent and Howden offer miles of flat walking and cycling terrain, as well as the chance to encounter more history – the area was used for dummy trials of Professor Barnes Wallis’ famous ‘bouncing bomb’ in the Second World War, thanks to its physical resemblance to Germany’s Rühr dams. It later starred in the film The Dam Busters. 

Further south is picturesque Dovedale, a valley known for its stepping stones and meandering river. It draws plenty of visitors, but do make the effort to walk past the stepping stones, after which the crowds start to thin. And if you’d rather avoid the main flow of tourism altogether, the region has a whole host of quieter scenic valleys, among them Cressbrook Dale, Monk’s Dale and Peter Dale. Because that’s the thing with a place as broad and varied as the Peak District – it’s packed with attractions, but there’s also plenty of space to go round. Which, somewhere as handsome as this, can only be a good thing.

Getting there

The Peak District is easily reached by car, being around 3hr 15min from London, 1hr 30min from Birmingham and only an hour or so from Manchester. The National Park is also well served by bus and rail, with train stations at places such as Edale, Hope and Hathersage. nationalexpress.com; thetrainline.com

Where to stay

The Cavendish Hotel on the Chatsworth House estate offers finely furnished rooms and an excellent restaurant. The Peacock at Rowsley is a luxurious option near Bakewell with four-poster bedrooms and a fine-dining restaurant. Alstonefield Manor is a B&B with bags of charm, set in a country house on the hills above Dovedale. Expect fresh flowers, high-class decor and scones and tea on arrival. cavendishbaslow.co.uk; thepeacockatrowsley.com; alstonefieldholidaycottages.com    

Where to eat

An atmospheric 18th-century pub on the village green at Alstonefield, The George offers Michelin-recommended dining, thanks in part to having its own vegetable garden. Other local produce, such as Derbyshire beef, features heavily on the menu. thegeorgeatalstonefield.com

READ MORE: The Lake District: an insider’s guide

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Historic Peak District hotel comes to market at £1.75 million

International real estate advisor Savills, on behalf of a private client, has brought to market The George Hotel in the village of Hathersage, Derbyshire for a guide price of £1.75 million.  The 500-year-old former coaching inn has been converted into a 24-bedroom hotel offering 10 superior rooms, 11 doubles and three singles.  The property also […]

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Book The Dragon’s Den for Private Dining or Corporate Events at The George Hathersage

Host your next event at The Dragon’s Den, perfect for private dining and corporate meetings. Accommodating up to 30 guests, we offer a variety of menus and conference packages. For larger events, consider our sister hotel, The Maynard. Enjoy a unique and convenient venue with all necessary amenities. Book now for an unforgettable experience.

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Explore the picturesque village of Hathersage in the Peak District with our ultimate guide. Discover stunning landscapes, rich history, and a range of outdoor activities. Stay at The George for comfortable ensuite rooms and enjoy local attractions, dining, and shopping. Plan your perfect weekend escape now and book your stay at The George today.

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Experience comfort and convenience in our spacious, contemporarily styled ensuite bedrooms at The George Hathersage. Enjoy luxury linen, local water, fresh coffee, and a hearty breakfast. Perfectly located in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales, close to local attractions and vibrant spots. Book your stay today.

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Step into The George in Hathersage for an exceptional dining and drinking experience. Our menu features wood-fired pizzas, chargrilled steaks, and a diverse selection of burgers, along with gluten-free and plant-based options. Enjoy locally brewed ales, craft draughts, Derbyshire gins, and hand-picked wines in our lively bar, making every visit memorable. Discover our breakfast, lunch, and dinner offerings in a setting perfect for all occasions.

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Stay informed with the latest updates from The George Hathersage. Explore news about our boutique hotel, special events, seasonal menus, and unique offers. Discover what's new and happening at The George, your destination for a memorable stay in Derbyshire.

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Friendly places to stay in Hathersage for a fun-filled holiday

Explore the best accommodations in Hathersage, from The George to the Plough Inn. Whether you seek a romantic escape, a family holiday, or a group adventure, Hathersage offers options for everyone. Book your stay and enjoy the perfect blend of relaxation and adventure in the Peak District.

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Stay Updated with the Latest News and Events at The George Hathersage

Keep up with the latest news and updates from The George Hathersage, including seasonal menus, special events like Afternoon Tea with Santa, and exciting reopening announcements. Whether you're planning a visit or curious about upcoming events, check out the updates for an unforgettable experience.