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Horse Shoe Cottage is a barn conversion situated in the farmhouse courtyard available for single or multiple nights stay.
The cottage consists of a large living room which is upstairs making the most of the magnificent views complete with tv, video, dvd player, cd player and board games, a modern kitchen with washing machine and dishwasher, a shower room with toilet located downstairs. Two bedrooms one of which is downstairs, each having one double and one single bed. The cottage also has central heating.
Well behaved dogs are welcome and the cottage is strictly non smoking. All bed linen and towels are provided.
The cottage is situated in the small village of Wardlow which has a population under 100. Wardlow is located approximately 5 miles North of Bakewell on the B6465 and just 3 miles from Tideswell.
Wardlow, formerly part of the Chatsworth Estate, is a small farming and former lead-mining village strung out along a road which follows the route of the Portway, an ancient Iron Age track which ran from Southern Derbyshire to the great Iron Age fort on Mam Tor.
The village church named the 'Good Shepherd' was built in 1872 in the Gothic style. The Good Shepherd is open for visitors every day from around 9am till dusk.
Every year the well dressing takes place during the first week in September when there are refreshments and items for sale in the hall. The church has a flower festival which is taking place on Saturday, 26th May 2007 to Sunday, 3rd June 2007. The well dressings this year are from Sat 1st Sep - Sun 9th Sep. Come and watch or even lend a hand between 11 am-5 pm in Wardlow Village Hall.
The village layout, with farms spaced out along the through road has probably changed little since Saxon times. The area around is dotted with relics of the local lead-mines, which were numerous and extended into nearby Ravensdale and towards Longstone.
Opposite the Three Stags Head pub is St Peter's Stone or Gibbet Rock. This is where, in 1816, Anthony Lingard was gibbeted. This was the last public gibbeting in Derbyshire.
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