Tissington
The Peak District

Tissington just four miles north of Ashbourne is a picturesque unspoiled village close to the Tissington Trail. The village has a Norman church, a village pond and Tissington Hall, the hall has been in the possession of the FitzHerbert family for over 500 years.
The Tissington Trail is used frequently by walkers, cyclists and pony trekking.
March 2008

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High Peak and Tissington Trails

Tissington village, approaching from the Tissington Trail car park,
on the left is the village pond and behind is the old school house dated 1837

Town Well, one of six wells in the village

Residents of the village pond

From the pond and school house looking along Rakes lane towards the hall

St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church

A good view of Tissington Hall from the church

The Old Coach House a licensed Tea Room

Hall Well, Tissington is well known for it's annual well dressing festival which runs
for seven days from Ascension Day each year, this year May 1st-7th 2008.

Pretty Tissington cottage dated 1858

In front of this cottage is Hands Well

Two cyclists along the Tissington Trail near Alsop en le Dale,
 this part of the railway line from Ashbourne to Buxton which opened in 1899
 and was finally closed in 1967 and was later made into a bridleway that runs for
13 miles (21km) between Ashbourne and Parsley Hay.

Alsop en le Dale a short distance from the trail

St Michael's church in Alsop en le Dale

The sun catches the valley bottom with it's stone walls

Continuing towards another stretch of the Tissington Trail
 passing barns like this one

Joining the Tissington Trail back to Tissington

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