The Peak District contains a wealth of towns and villages, each with their own unique character. In the past, lead mining and agriculture were the principal sources of income, tourism has perhaps taken over from the mining but agriculture still supports many local inhabitants.
Tom Bates has spent many years researching and writing about the county of Derbyshire. Click here to view his work.
Here you can find out more about Tom’s series of leaflets about the Peak District entitled ‘Peak Villages - an Insiders Guide’
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Peak District Villages - An Insider’s Guide
Derbyshire writer Tom Bates has visited each of the villages in this massive series of 65 leaflets in order to write his ‘Insider’s Guide’ series. Much of the information has come from the locals themselves, parish records and the like.
The result of many months of painstaking research was a series of articles, published in ‘Reflections’ magazine, here, the articles have been updated, augmented and had new photographs added to become the first set of leaflets about the villages of the Peak District published in over 30 years.
But these are not just mass produced leaflets. They are individually printed and hand made in the county of Derbyshire.
These full colour leaflets contain …
Photographs
Historical points
Key architecture
Folklore
And all for just 99p, available from local shops, Post Offices, B&Bs, Craft Centres.
All of his leaflets about the Peak District are in production, just over 50 in total. If you wish to use them as promotional materials for your hotel, bed and breakfast or self-catering cottage, we can customise them to inclusde your details and offer them at a wholesale price (minimum order of 25 leaflets applies).
If you find any difficulties with obtaining these locally, or prefer to deal directly with the publishers, click here to find out more or buy them.
If you own a shop or other business and would like to distribute these leaflets, please click here.
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