Back at the beginning of June we had a day out in the very lovely Peak District. We started out at the Tissington Well Dressing Festival and then decided to have a drive over to Ilam Park.
It was a short, but lovely, drive from Tissington. I just love the hills and dales of the South Peak. We headed through the tiny village of Thorpe, passing Thorpe Cloud and The Rest, the holiday cottage we stayed in back in 2015, and down the hill, which we walked up a fair few years ago ...
... passing the road to Dovedale and the Isaac Walton Hotel ...
... before parking up in the National Trust car park at Ilam Hall. The last time we visited here it was wet and grey ... not so today. It looked lovely in the afternoon sunshine ...
First stop ... you've guessed it ...

... where we wandered in the shade of the lime tree avenue until we reached the Battle Stone ...
At this point we decided to head back up the path through the woods ...
... which brought us back to where we'd started from, in the garden of the tea room ...
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