Featuring more than 170 walks led by expert and knowledgeable guides, the Peak District Walking Festival took place from Saturday April 24 to Sunday May 9 2010 and was bigger and better than ever. There are websites to look into. wwwvisitpeakdistrict.com walking festivals.

A circular walk around Buxton through its woodlands

This 10 mile (16km) walk passes through most of the woods that surround Buxton. To complete the 'core' walk comfortably, allow 4 1/2 to 5 hours.

It divides into three sections:

• Grin Wood ( Poole 's Cavern) to Ashwood Dale (3.1 miles/5km)
• Ashwood Dale to Gadley Wood (2.8 miles/4.5km)
• Gadley Wood back to Grin Wood (4.1 miles/6km)

You can spend a day completing the entire walk and gain an ever-changing perspective of the town from its woods. Or pick a bite-sized chunk of the circle, covering one or more woods, choosing a direction and a starting point that suits the time you have available and your particular interests.

Best places to walk in Buxton

Buxton is a wonderful place to walk. Buxton attracts a lot of walkers from all over the place in England. My favourite place are Solmons Temple, Corber Cross And there's a walk called Circular

                         This picture is the view of Buxton from the top of solmons Temple

The Monsal Trail is a traffic free route for walkers, cyclists, horse riders and wheelchair users through some of the Peak District's most spectacular limestone dales.
The trail runs along the former Midland Railway line for 8.5 miles between Blackwell Mill, in Chee Dale and Coombs Road, at Bakewell.
Most of the route was opened to the public in 1981 but four former railway tunnels had to remain closed due to safety reasons, with public footpaths taking people around them. From 25 May 2011 the four railway tunnels - Headstone Tunnel, Cressbrook Tunnel, Litton Tunnel, Chee Tor Tunnel – will also open for trail users. Each tunnel is about 400 metres long and will be lit during normal daylight hours.
Two shorter tunnels - Chee Tor No.2 and Rusher Cutting – already formed part of the Monsal Trail.
The public can now experience the full length of the former railway route at their own pace and see breathtaking views at places like Water-cum-Jolly Dale that have remained hidden since the railway closed in 1968.

Solomon's Temple, also known as Grinlow Tower, is a Victorian Fortified hill marker near the spa town of Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District.^[1]
It is said to have been built by Solomon Mycock in the 1890s,^[2] paid for by public subscription to provide work for the locally unemployed with assistance of the seventh Duke of Devonshire. The tower was restored in 1998 by public subscription.^[3]
The structure is a 20-foot-high (6.1 m), two-storey tower built on top of a Bronze Age barrow, sitting on top of a ridge at a height of 440 metres (1,440 ft) above sea level.^[2] From the open top of the tower there are good views over the town and the surrounding countryside and parts of the Peak District. The tower does not contain anything other than the staircase to the top.