Peak District
Dmitriy, you've arrived in the Peak District.
Britain's first national park, the Peak District is not only easily accessible by road and rail, it's one of the few outdoor walking and trail spaces that also has easy access in certain areas for less physically-able walkers, wheelchairs, and other mobility vehicles. Those who'd like to cover the trails by bike won't be disappointed either, and there are even options available for wheelchair users.
Adventurous climbers won't be disappointed by what are some of the finest and most challenging sites in the world. Former mining sites combine with caves to make the Peak District a potholer's paradise.
If you fancy a little sedate sightseeing instead, go and see the magnificent Hardwick Hall. Built for the formidable Bess of Hardwick, this extraordinary Tudor figure was not just a woman that married increasingly well - four times - but along with her husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, she was both jailer and protector of Mary Queen of Scots for 15 years.
If Bess married well herself, she arranged even better matches for her children - she arranged for one of her daughters to marry into the Lennox family, who had a claim to the throne through Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII. Although Bess' immediate manoeuvring upwards failed, she did get a descendant on the throne eventually through the Dukes of Portland - Queen Elizabeth II.