{"id":1593,"date":"2016-07-13T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2016-07-16T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T09:42:12","slug":"peak-district-2016-day-19-ashbourne-to-buxton-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Peak District, 2016 \u2013 Day 19, Ashbourne to Buxton railway\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1570\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_163809-1-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"The Tissington trail...\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_163809-1-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_163809-1-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_163809-1-841x768.jpg 841w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_163809-1-767x700.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tissington trail&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The old Ashbourne to Buxton railway was opened in 1899 but regular passenger services ceased in 1954 and in 1971 it became a cycle trail &#8211; The Tissington Trail. The trail is named after the village of Tissington which is on the route.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1572\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150159-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peak District Scenery...\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150159-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150159-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150159-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150159-767x431.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peak District Scenery&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We drove to the car park close to the start of the trail at Ashbourne and cycled towards Buxton. Whilst we hadn&#8217;t planned which direction to take, we were pleased to have selected this way as the entire 13.5 miles was uphill &#8211; a steady grind for the entire length of the trail. Plenty of unspoilt scenery on the route to Parsley Hay.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1571\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150916-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"High Peak junction...\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150916-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150916-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150916-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160713_150916-767x431.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Peak junction&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We stopped for a coffee at Parsley Hay, which is just past the point where the Tissington Trail and High Peak trails converge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Tissington Trail...\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1-767x767.png 767w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2016-07-14-21-46-41-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissington Trail&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The return journey was predominantly downhill and required little effort whatsoever to complete. Still the entire journey had taken some 4 or 5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we ate at the Chinese restaurant in Ashbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Ashbourne to Buxton railway was opened in 1899 but regular passenger services ceased in 1954 and in 1971 it became a cycle trail &#8211; The Tissington Trail. The trail is named after the village of Tissington which is on the route. We drove to the car park close to the start of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peak District, 2016 \u2013 Day 19, Ashbourne to Buxton railway\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotswolds-and-peak-district","category-2016-little-england"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}