FREE GUIDED WALKING TOURS

Learn about the famous people and events that have shaped the historic town of Ashbourne.

Ashbourne Town Walking Guides consists of a team of enthusiastic and knowledgeable local people offering FREE tours of the Ashbourne Town.

Based at the Tourist Information Centre in the Market Place the tours highlight the many listed buildings and recall the famous people and events that have shaped the historic town of Ashbourne.

Lasting up to one and a half hours the walks are informative, interesting and entertaining and suitable for all ages and interests in history.

Booking is advisable as the days and times vary throughout the year.

Private walks and tours reflecting special interests can be arranged for groups and schools.

To find out about the tour times, contact: Ashbourne Tourist Information Centre, 13 Market Place, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, DE6 1EU
Tel: 01335 343666 Web: www.visitpeakdistrict.com

The service is provided by the Ashbourne Partnership with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Derbyshire County Council and Derbyshire Dales County Council.

The Ark Rescue and Rehoming Centre
Wyaston Road
Ashbourne

Sunday February 14th 2010
BE MY VALENTINE OPEN DAY
11am - 4pm
2010 Events to be annouced soon.

Web Site: www.ashbourneanimalwelfare.org

Dove Farm
Mill Lane, off Dove Street
Ellastone, Ashbourne
DE6 2GY
Phone: 01335 324 357
Contact: Jane Stretton

local network for women in business, who feel they or their
business have a connection with the countryside
2010 Dates to be Confirmed

Email: info@dovefarm.co.uk
Web Site: www.dovefarm.co.uk

Ashbourne Partnership
5 Town Hall Yard
Ashbourne
DE6 1EW
Phone: 01335 301145

Danny Wells and Ashbourne Partnership would like to offer 10 local people the chance to become a volunteer guide to show tourists around our wonderful town.

You will receive 16 hours of training which will cover:
public speaking
presentation skills
a history of Ashbourne
details about Ashbourne Architecture
information about the religion, faith, local customs, local events that are unique

The training will result in you being able to demonstrate a broad knowledge of Ashbourne and to then able to pass that knowledge on to groups of tourists.

The training will take place during the winter months 2009 and the tours will start in April 2010 and run until September 2010.

Contact the office and will register your interest.

Units 4 & 5 Henmore Trading Estate
Mayfield Road
Ashbourne
DE6 1AS
Phone: 01335 344665

2nd - 6th August 9.30AM - 3.15PM and for pupils aged 5 1/2 - 14 yrs. We will be doing dance, drama, singing, make-up, hair and costumes but to name a few activities.

It's open to all, not just dance school pupils.

Please contact Tina Dodsworth at the Ashbourne School of Dance on 01335 344 665.

Email: info@ashbournedance.co.uk
Web Site: www.ashbournedance.co.uk

The Polo Ground,
Osmaston Village
Nr Ashbourne
DE6 1LW
Phone: 01889 507497

Saturday 21st August 2010

A traditional country show, with a friendly atmosphere, entertainment and interests for all the family.

Craft Marquee, Food Hall, Dog Show, Vintage Tractors, Shire Horse Society, Livestock Classes, Classic Cars, Pony classes br>
Tickets are from the Tourist Information offices in
Ashbourne
Buxton
Leek

or any Derbyshire Building Society

Web Site: www.ashbourneshow.co.uk

Lower Hurst Farm
Wetton
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
DE6 2AE
Phone: 07811 021189

The Dovedale Arts Festival goes from strength to strength and this September we hold the third Festival in the lovely setting of Lower Hurst Farm on the banks of the River Dove. Its barns and gardens, with spectacular views, provide the perfect spot for a convivial and stimulating weekend of music, talks, art and entertainment, fuelled by some of the best food in the locality.

Marina Lewycka, one of our guest speakers in 2007, called it the most enjoyable festival that Ive been to, and we have a more exciting a line-up this year than ever. We crack off on the evening of Friday 10 September with the renowned Allegri String Quartet playing an exciting programme of classical and contemporary music, after a private view of our artists exciting and innovative paintings and sculpture.

Saturday features Matthew Rice talking about his new book The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent  a fanfare for one of the great cities of the industrial revolution, where he and his wife Emma Bridgewater run their supremely successful pottery business. The poet Christopher Reid, winner of the 2009 Costa Book Award, will read from his prize-winning and poignant collection A Scattering, and his recent comic tour de force A Song of Lunch. Thomas Pakenham, whose Meetings with Remarkable Trees made him a household name, will tell us the stories behind his fascination with trees and their significance the world over. And Stephen Venables, the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen, takes us on another hair-raising journey, across South Georgia in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton.

Lynne Truss and Robert Bathurst fill the evening with laughter and entertainment, performing a selection of Lynnes comic monologues, with dinner served in the interval

Sunday 12 September opens with Helena Newman, doyenne of Sothebys Impressionist and Modern Art business, talking about the nuts and bolts of the international art market: the discoveries and disappointments, the auction records set and broken, the sheer adrenalin of arguably the most glamorous business in the world.

Sunday afternoon conjures up many colourful lives. Miranda Seymour, who has written lives ranging from Henry James and Mary Shelley to Helle Nice (The Bugatti Queen) and Charlie Chaplins muse, talks about the art of being a biographer, and about her own controversial story set in nearby Thrumpton Hall, My Fathers House. Henrietta Heald tells the little-known story of William Armstrong, Magician of the North, a titanic pioneer of the Victorian age, inventor of hydraulic power, industrialist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, ecologist, creator of Cragside and, it was said, inventor of modern living.

The Festival is rounded off by Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, discussing her just-published memoirs Look at Me! With Charlotte Mosley. The last of the celebrated Mitford sisters to publish her memoirs, this will be a long-anticipated and memorable occasion, and a glittering close to a memorable weekend.

Email: info@dovedalearts.co.uk
Web Site: www.dovedalearts.co.uk

Did you attend QEGS school during the period 1963 - 1968 or 1963 - 1970, for all or part of these years?
We are planning a class reunion on September 25 2010.
If you are interested and know of anyone else who was in our year contact Alan Hudson on 07973 756387 or email alan@hudsonsafety.co.uk.

Dovedale, Nr Ashbourne

The Dovedale Dash is a cross country race of 4¾ miles, run by about 1200 people of all abilities .

7th November 2010 - 11am

The venue is the picturesque area around the village of Thorpe and Dovedale in the south of the Derbyshire Peak District.
further details visit the website below.

Web Site: www.dovedaledash.co.uk

This event happens each year on New Years Day at Lunchtime
Mappleton Village
Nr Ashbourne

This event consists of a number of teams of 2 people who paddle in boats down a 1/2 mile stretch of the river Dove by Mappleton and then jump off a bridge.

It doesn't sound much - but the Dove is one of the coldest rivers in the UK - especially on New Years Day !

Also the river is not exactly navigable in all parts of the course, so falling into the water happens! - They then have the bridge to jump off, which is 30 feet high and finally a small matter of a run of 500 yards to the pub.

Hundreds come to watch - what better way to spend the day sobering up.

Each year the event donates its proceeds to a local charity

Ashbourne Town Centre

Every year Ashbourne hold a game of football

Unlike anything else you have ever experienced

Always on Shrove Tuesday /Ash Wednesday - kick off 2 pm each day in the Shawcroft Car park.

An unlimited number of players with goal posts 3 miles apart!