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From the Tor back to Millersdale station may be 

 taken the river-side. Soon after passing the little foot- 

 bridge, we find that we are concealed beneath cliffs and 

 trees. Every step of the way there is something grate- 

 ful to be heard or seen, and the walk is over while we 

 are still lost in sweet astonishment. 



From Millersdale station to Bakewell it is seven miles 

 farther, and from Millersdale to Matlock, fifteen miles ; 

 from Manchester to the latter place, say forty-six in all. 

 At Bakewell we leave the line for CHATSWORTH, or at 

 Hassop, one mile before coming to Bakewell, we may do 

 so quite as advantageously. From either place the walk 

 to Chatsworth is most delightful, and may be accom- 

 plished in less than an hour. The splendours of that far- 

 famed place, its noble park and princely conservatories, 

 its fountains and glorious galleries of art, crowded with 

 the " marble progeny of the imagination," here cannot 

 be descanted on. The work has been efficiently done 

 by others,* and no more is needed now than to indicate 

 how easy is the approach. The same as regards Had- 

 don Hall, with its inexpressibly-interesting associations 

 and adjuncts, the distance to which place from Bake- 

 well is even less than to Chatsworth. Monsalldale, 

 threaded by the Wye after leaving Millersdale, is also 

 a charming locality, requiring, like the former, an entire 

 day for the exploration. 



* As in Mr Croston's excellent work, " On Foot through the 

 Peak." (1862.) 



