Dovedale and Carsington Water

We set off for Dovedale up and down the winding roads only to find the  NT car park is just that, cars only, so continued on to Ilam Hall. No problem there so wandered around the grounds and along the river with the sheep for a while before having a picnic in the van. 

 

We drove over to Carsington Water where we might have stayed and walked up to the stone circle.   

Then set off south to take a look at Belper and it's heritage mills but by then we were too late to do the tour so just looked at the river gardens. Not much else to do in Belper except to fill up with diesel before returning to site for the evening. We were unable to contact Norman as we still had his old phone number in the address book.