Froggatt

This neat village sits below the gritstone escarpment known as Froggatt Edge - a favourite place for climbers. The village’s position has lead to its name - there are 17 fresh water springs in the village of which three can still be seen. The river Derwent is close by together with its attractive 17th-century bridge, which is rather unusual in that it has two different shaped and sized arches.

The Froggatt Show is held on August Bank Holiday and is an offshoot of the former village ‘cow club’. There are very few pubs or shops but the quaintness still attracts many tourists on hot summer weekends.

Nearby Stoke Hall, situated high above the Derwent Valley, was built in 1757 for Reverend John Simpson. The Hall remains home to a ghost, said to have been haunting the building for well over 100 years. The ghost is claimed to be that of a maid at the Hall who, while pining for a soldier fighting overseas, was brutally murdered. Her employers at the Hall were so shocked by this that they built a memorial to her in the front garden. However, the memorial was seen to move not long after it had been erected, and so it was rebuilt in a quiet corner of the estate, where it remains undisturbed.