This walk is available all year round as a scheduled walk. It is also available year-round as a private booking on a date of your choice via a Personal Walking Guide. The only times this walk is not available is during our Christmas and New Year break, staff holiday periods, or when we are unable to take any bookings due to other commitments such as media work.

Personal Walking Guide bookings for this walk are available most days of the week year-round, and we are normally able to accept Personal Walking Guide bookings for most days apart from some Saturdays and some Sundays. Provided we have not already received other bookings for that date, any scheduled walk may be upgraded to a private booking.

If you book a Personal Walking Guide for this walk, you can request a different start time if desired. Available start times are between 9:00am and early evening (around 7:00pm), although do bear in mind the need to finish before it gets dark. If you would like to request a different start time, please contact us before booking in order to determine if your requested start time is feasible.

The following prices apply for this walk:

For more information on how to book places on this walk, and on private group bookings via a Personal Walking Guide, please see here. If you have any questions about the cost of this walk, please contact us via email at enquiries@derbysheritagewalks.com.

This walk qualifies for our "Cromford Double" offer. With this offer, if you book this walk and our Cromford Canal walk for the same day, you can save 25% on the total cost of both walks. So, instead of paying £6.00 each per person for each of the walks (a total of £12.00), you get both for £9.00 per person. This offer applies to both scheduled walks and private bookings, where you make an additional saving by only paying one private booking fee for the two walks, saving you an additional £10.00 off the total cost.

Family tickets are also available for the "Cromford Double" offer - please e-mail us for further details.

--> The walks are scheduled so that you do this walk in the morning, then have an hour for lunch and a look around Cromford Mill, and then walk along the Canal to Ambergate in the afternoon. If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please contact us for more details and to check availability for your preferred date.

This walk is easily accessible by both car and public transport. However, due to the current situation regarding the use of public transport, we are recommending that you drive to the walk, or use other environmentally-friendly forms of personal transport such as cycling. Full details of how to get to and from the walk will be included in the walk information sheet you will be sent along with your booking confirmation, but detailed information on the various transport options is also available on our travel information page, which we try to keep as up to date as possible.

If travelling by car, there is "pay-and-display" car parking available on Cromford Meadows itself, on the adjacent canal wharf, and also across the road at Cromford Mill. The postcode for sat-navs to reach Cromford Meadows is DE4 3RQ, and the Meadows are directly opposite St Mary's Church just south of the bridge over the river.

As this is essentially a short urban walk, you won't need full walking gear. However, there are a few places where the going underfoot is a bit rough and possibly muddy, so stout waterproof shoes are advisable. There is also very little shelter on much of the walk, so be sure to bring either waterproofs or an umbrella if rain has been forecast. In warm weather, you may want to bring a small bottle of water with you as well.

While the coronavirus crisis is still ongoing, we also ask that you bring your own facemask or similar face covering, plus your own hand sanitiser. While we endevour to maintain proper social distancing at all times on the walks, there are some occasions where it is necessary to use narrow paths. As it would be impossible in most cases to maintain proper social distancing if we were to encounter someone coming the other way along the path, the recommended advice in such a situation is to use a mask or other face covering while passing the other person. There is also the need to touch gates to pass from paths onto roads. In these situations it is advised to use hand sanitiser before and immediately after touching the gate. As we are not able to supply them for you, due to the high costs currently involved in obtaining supplies, it is your responsibility to provide your own, and failure to do so may result in cancellation of the walk.

There are a few minor issues with wheelchair access on this walk, but it is largely accessible to all. The only places where there are problems are the footpath leading through the old allotments to North Street, as this is narrow and ends in some steep steps and a narrow gate, and Church Walk, which is a rough and often muddy unmade track. However, both of these problem areas can be easily bypassed via alternative routes if necessary, without detracting from the overall walk. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Please note that, due to problems for wheelchair users on the canal towpath, we cannot accept any "Cromford Double" bookings for wheelchair users.

As an urban walk, there is a lot going on in the area which your dog may find distracting. However, there is nothing to stop you bringing your dog if you think it can be well enough behaved. If you would like to bring your dog with you, we do ask that you inform us at the time of booking. We also ask that, due to the traffic and large number of people likely to be encountered, and the possibility of meeting other dogs, you keep your dog under close control on a short non-extendible lead at all times and do not allow it to run free under any circumstances.

Scheduled Walks

Ordinarily, we use PayPal buttons to handle booking and payment for all of our walks. However, due to the current situation, we have suspended that system, and so now if you wish to book a walk, you need to e-mail us with the details of the walk and date that you wish to book. We will then send you a PayPal invoice, which you can pay either using a PayPal account or, if you don't have access to one of those, you can pay using any debit or credit card. Other payment options are available on request - Please e-mail us for details if required.

The cost of this walk is £6.00 per person, including a £2.00 per person non-refundable deposit.

We also have discounted family tickets available for this walk - please e-mail us for details. All family tickets include a 25% non-refundable deposit. -->

Private Bookings

Private upgrades of scheduled walks are not currently available.

Personal Walking Guides

You can make a private booking for this walk on dates other than those on which it is normally scheduled by booking a Personal Walking Guide. This allows you to do the walk when you want to, not when we have it scheduled. We have Personal Walking Gudes available most days, except for those listed as either "unavailable" or "unavailable for private bookings" on the calendar here. Please see the table below for the days of the week on which we are able to offer Personal Walking Guide bookings for this walk.

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