The Tissington Trail: Thirteen Miles of Old Railway Through the Peak

The LNWR opened the Ashbourne to Buxton line in 1899, the last railway built in the Peak District, and at Parsley Hay it met the Cromford and High Peak Railway, a line finished nearly seventy years earlier to connect the Cromford Canal wharf with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge. The trackbed reopened as a trail in 1971 and is now part of the National Cycle Network — 13 miles from Parsley Hay in the north down to Ashbourne in the south, on a gently graded surface, apart from one short steep dip near Ashbourne where a viaduct was taken out.