This walk, led by Jennie Ainsworth, begins before the building of the Crescent, when Gilpin described the town as 'surrounded by dreary barren hills’ and explores The Slopes and the fashionable lower town around the Crescent. 

Here is Georgian elegance at the spa, recreated from the architecture and from anecdotal accounts derived from diaries and letters of visitors and travel writers. 

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THE DEVONSHIRES IN BUXTON

July 12 
12pm              

Old Hall Hotel Theatre Bar
    
£6, including coffee

1 hour 30 minutes

SOLD OUT

From the Opera House, Slopes and Pavilion Gardens to the Devonshire Royal Campus and the ambitious plans for the Crescent and Thermal Spa, Buxton’s rich architectural heritage is enjoying a new lease of life through a programme of heritage-led regeneration. 

Conservation expert Richard Tuffrey leads a walk taking in all of these projects and more, looking at their recent and past history and some of the issues surrounding their restoration.

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THE FUTURE OF BUXTON'S HERITAGE

July 13
12pm

Old Hall Hotel Theatre Bar

£6, including coffee
 
1 hour 30 minutes

SOLD OUT

Led by Alan Walker, this walk explores the industrial remains of lime burning in the 18th and 19th centuries on Grin Low and the area’s special fauna and flora, leading to Solomon’s Temple, said to have been built by Solomon Mycock in the 1890s to provide work for the locally unemployed. 

The site is reputed to be an early Bronze Age burial site, where crouched burials and cremated human remains were found in the late 19th century.  Sitting atop a ridge at 1440 feet above sea level, it enjoys excellent views of the town and surrounding countryside.  Stout footwear and outdoor clothing recommended.

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From the Opera House, Slopes and Pavilion Gardens to the Devonshire Royal Campus and the ambitious plans for the Crescent and Thermal Spa, Buxton’s rich architectural heritage is enjoying a new lease of life through a programme of heritage-led regeneration. 

Conservation expert Richard Tuffrey leads a walk taking in all of these projects and more, looking at their recent and past history and some of the issues surrounding their restoration.

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Led by Alan Walker, this walk explores the industrial remains of lime burning in the 18th and 19th centuries on Grin Low and the area’s special fauna and flora, leading to Solomon’s Temple, said to have been built by Solomon Mycock in the 1890s to provide work for the locally unemployed. 

The site is reputed to be an early Bronze Age burial site, where crouched burials and cremated human remains were found in the late 19th century.  Sitting atop a ridge at 1440 feet above sea level, it enjoys excellent views of the town and surrounding countryside. 

Stout footwear and outdoor clothing recommended.



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This walk, led by Jennie Ainsworth, begins before the building of the Crescent, when Gilpin described the town as 'surrounded by dreary barren hills’ and explores The Slopes and the fashionable lower town around the Crescent. 

Here is Georgian elegance at the spa, recreated from the architecture and from anecdotal accounts derived from diaries and letters of visitors and travel writers. 

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