How to Find Us

Set in 11 acres with a hand picked White Peak village location outside of the village of Thorpe, in Dovedale (near Ashbourne). The three-star Peveril of the Peak allows you to stay amid some of the finest scenery of the Peak District has to offer. The location of the hotel is given on the map above. For directions click on the marker and click the link 'to here' and type in your current postcode. Google will then return directions.



TO FIND US

From the South

M6 J13 Exit (Stafford) Take the A518 (via Uttoxeter) for 17m and then the A50 (s/posted M1). Turn off onto the A515 (s/posted Ashbourne). As you pass through Ashbourne pick up the A515 (s/posted Buxton). Turn left 1m out of Ashbourne (s/posted Thorpe/Dovedale/Ilam) and continue for 2m. The roads bends sharply left immediately after The Dog & Partridge and the hotel lies ahead at the bottom of the descent. (33 miles)

 

M1 J24 Exit Take the A50 for 20m and then turn off onto the A515 (s/posted Ashbourne)... Follow route as above. (34 miles)

 

M5 Join the M6 (London) and pick up the A34 at J7 exit. Head towards Lichfield via A4041/A452/A461 and then A51 and A515 (Ashbourne)… Follow route as above.

 

M40/M42 Pick up the A446 at M42 J9 exit and then A38 to Lichfield followed by A51 and A515 (Ashbourne).

 

Gatwick/Heathrow Airports We are approximately 3 hours drive away from these London airports. There are also regular trains from St Pancras railway station in London to Derby, and from Derby we are a 30 minute taxi ride away.

From the North

M6 J16 Exit Take the A500 (s/posted Stoke) for 7m and then the A53 (s/posted Leek), A5010 & A50 (s/posted Uttoxeter) (appx 0.75m on ea of these) before picking up the A52 (s/posted Ashbourne). As you pass through Ashbourne pick up the A515 (s/posted Buxton)…follow route as above. (34 miles)

 

M1 J28 Exit Take the A38 (s/posted Derby) and then A610 (s/posted Matlock). After 3m take the A6 (s/posted Matlock). Continue for appx 8m and take the A5012 at Cromford. After 8m turn left onto the A515 (Ashbourne) and continue for 6m until you come to a RH turning (brown sign for Thorpe/Dovedale/Ilam). At the T-junction (The Dog & Partridge) turn right and follow the road as it bends sharply left. The hotel lies ahead at the bottom of the descent. (30 miles)

 

M6O Exit J1 (Stockport) and pick up the A6 which takes you to Buxton. At Buxton take the A515 to Ashbourne. After appx 15m (2m after the Alstonefield/Millers Dale turn off) take the RH turning (brown sign for Thorpe/Dovedale/Ilam)…follow route as above. (40 miles)

 

Birmingham/Manchester/Nottingham(East Midlands) Airports We are approximately a 1 hour drive away all of these Midland airports.

 

From Alton Towers

Follow signs Alton, Uttoxeter to leave by unclassified road. Go past Alton Post Office (s/posted Uttoxeter, M1, M6) and at T-junction turn left onto the B5032. After 7m (Mayfield) turn right onto the A52 (The Queens Arms) towards Ashbourne. As you pass through Ashbourne pick up the A515 (s/posted Buxton)…follow route as above. (13 miles)

   

Aberdeen

405

 

Chesterfield

27

 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

170

Ashbourne

3.5

 

Coventry

60

 

Norwich

180

Bakewell

17

 

Derby

18

 

Northampton

90

Bath

150

 

Dover

240

 

Nottingham

35

Birmingham

45

 

Durham

155

 

Oxford

115

Bristol

135

 

Edinburgh

270

 

Peterborough

95

Buxton

18

 

Harrogate

95

 

Plymouth

250

Cambridge

130

 

Leeds

70

 

Reading

145

Canterbury

225

 

Liverpool

75

 

Sheffield

35

Carlisle

170

 

London

150

 

Southampton

185

Cheltenham

100

 

Manchester Airport

45

 

Stratford-upon-Avon

75

Chester

65

 

Matlock

17

 

York

95