There are lots of very picturesque villages in the Peak District, but just for a change, which gets your vote as the ugliest one?

For me it has to be Dove Holes, on the road between Castleton and Buxton. Drab drab drab grey buildings that suck the life force from me every time I drive through. It looks like a horrible dump.

Any other nominations?

I'll stick with Dove Holes because it's horrible! I used to live near there and it really is a nasty, ugly little place!

For boringness, Tunstead Milton, my former home, has to win... we had a post box and a public phone box and, well that's it!!

Sheldon is pretty bleak too....

This coming from people who live in Sheffield...? :roll:

The Peak District is like heaven compared to this craphole.

I didn't say I was comparing anywhere to Sheffield though - just to other villages in the Peaks.

A lot of the villages in the Peak District are no great shakes when it comes to architecture, facilities, IQ per head of population etc.......all they have got going for them (and it counts for a lot) is location, location, location...............

Glossop is the ugliest village in the Peak District - well, it has the ugliest women, anyway.

I was travelling through it many years ago, and all the women looked like Sheffield women used to back in the eighties - no make up, nobody even attempting to wear flattering clothes or do their hair.

Thankfully, things have improved greatly in Sheffield.

I can only hope they have in Glossop too.

:)

Slightly off topic but that blooming great big factory thing you can see from just about everywhere out Castleton way really does my head in.

We go and we have lovely 'mountains' and valleys and quaintly names tourist attractions such as the devils arse, and there in the background is a concrete monstrosity with a great big smoking chimney. Sort of spoils the mood for me.

Not a village but definitely an eyesore.

Dragon

Probably The Blue Circle Cement works in the Hope Valley. The carbunkle of the Peak District. :mad:

Dove Holes is pretty bleak but isn't in the National Park, and Glossop is more of a town than a village. In the ugly village stakes the winner would have to be one of the quarrying places. I think I'd vote for Stoney Middleton - a few houses and a chip shop in a lightless gorge, with a main road thundering through it and everywhere covered in quarry dust.

Interestingly it was the building of the cement works in the Hope Valley in the 1920s that created such a fuss that led to the creation of the Peak National Park, to ensure amongst other things that similar construction did not occur in the future.

If we are sticking to villages within the National Park then I personally would go for Bradway which is a bit of a mess and to my mind has little to recommend it.

Surprised anyone could propose Sheldon, accepted it can be a bit bleak up there in winter but the housing, church and pub are all lovely.

Its easy to suggest Stoney, it suffers from the A623 traffic but if you get away from the road, either up the hill or the Eyam side then you will great housing with bags of character and a vibrant community, i have a number of friends who love living there.

Originally posted by antics
This coming from people who live in Sheffield...? :roll:

The Peak District is like heaven compared to this craphole.

nu uh - I only live in Sheffield for Uni! I "officially" live in the Peak District.

Thinking about it, New Mills is pretty bad, as is Furness Vale. Tunstead Milton as well as being boring is basically a main road with houses built along it, but the pretty farmhouses where my parents live and the edge of Coombs reservoir redeem it!

Glossop on a friday and saturday night sees the women put lots and lots of make up on... they still wear clothes that don't flatter (ie. boob tubes and mini skirts - so not a good look!)

All of these places, although possibly not classed as in the National Park, are still classed as the High Peak and have stricter building laws (so I'm told by my council friend - though you wouldn't know it to see some of the things they have built!)

Originally posted by owdlad
Probably The Blue Circle Cement works in the Hope Valley. The carbunkle of the Peak District. :mad:

Agreed it does look horrible but people who live in the area have to make a living somehow, not everyone can open a Blue John gift shop.

Originally posted by sheff_minx
Glossop on a friday and saturday night sees the women put lots and lots of make up on... they still wear clothes that don't flatter (ie. boob tubes and mini skirts - so not a good look!)



Every town has people like this. You're saying you never see people like this in Sheffield on a night out?! :roll:

Fat-ass scabbers are everywhere.

Castleton - full of tourists!

Originally posted by Abdul
Glossop is the ugliest village in the Peak District

Perhaps that's why it isn't in the national park boundaries!

I remember studying the Park during environmental studies at school in the 1970's and thinking "I wonder why the park boundaries skirt it like that, it must be a right sh*thole"!

What about Sparrowpit? That literally is just a main road going through a few houses, what a dull place to have to live

'Glossop is the ugliest village in the Peak District - well, it has the ugliest women, anyway.

I was travelling through it many years ago, and all the women looked like Sheffield women used to back in the eighties - no make up, nobody even attempting to wear flattering clothes or do their hair.

Thankfully, things have improved greatly in Sheffield.

I can only hope they have in Glossop too.'

Playing spot the attractive person is a fun way of passing through Glossop before you hit the traffic - must have played fifty times without winning.............. Can I also suggest timing your approach to the hairpin just before Glossop, so you can beep the golfers teeing off by the road!

Originally posted by GHS1961

If we are sticking to villages within the National Park then I personally would go for Bradway which is a bit of a mess and to my mind has little to recommend it.



Bradway is in Sheffield. I think you mean Bradwell. You say
"little to recommend it"?

GENERAL INFORMATION

Bradwell in the Peak District of Derbyshire is a pretty, unspoiled village set in the picturesque Hope Valley. It lies on the line where the dark and white peaks meet and is surrounded by rolling countryside divided up by dry stone walls typical of the area.

Dating back to Roman times, Bradwell has a long tradition of mineral extraction, first in the form of lead mining and more recently the extraction of limestone for the production of cement. Its houses are built mainly in limestone, and adorn the hillsides in a higgledy piggledy fashion.

This mixture of geological heritage and climate - we have our own weather in Bradwell! - endows the area with some of the most attractive and varied scenery around.

A stiff walk to the top of Bradwell Edge will prove the point, with views of Ladybower Dam (part of the Derwent Dams) and Win Hill to the north, Losehill and the mighty Kinder Scout beyond to the NW; further west lies Buxton and to the south the vast plateau of fields surrounded by the dry limestone walls that typify the White Peak area.

To the east, views over the Hathersage end of the Hope Valley and the road from Sheffield, from which a spectacular introduction to the area is seen; indeed the name "Surprise View" is no accident - I would say "breathtaking". Also visible to the east is the craggy face of Stanage Edge, a favourite of many climbers - indeed many world famous ones have cut their teeth on these rocks.

Bradwell also boasts:
Ye Olde Bowling Green Inn (I recently took my partner's parents there for an excellent meal)
Bagshawe Cavern

And take a walk up Smalldale to see the lovely higgledy piggledy houses.:thumbsup:

Ugliest vilage in the Peak District National Park? My vote goes to Sterndale Moor. Old quarry worker's village, with 'lovely' views of the Dunlow quarry works! :gag:

Years ago I spent a few days vacation in Bradwell with my Mom and Dad. It wasn't the prettiest place I was ever in but it had one distinction. It had the crappiest , most unwelcoming people I ever met.

Next time you go to Bradwell, have some fish and chips from the local chippie. They are by far the best I have ever tasted anywhere...and the people who run it are very friendly :)

oops meant to type Bradwell but it came out as Bradway.

Actually the chippy isn't bad, Bowling Green is a nice pub spoilt by the miserable git who was running it the last time i was in there.

Isn't Sheffield partly in the Peak District?

Hope is actually very depressing...... Thumbs up for hathersage though, lovely little place:thumbsup:

Originally posted by owdlad
Probably The Blue Circle Cement works in the Hope Valley. The carbunkle of the Peak District. :mad:

The cement works is an eyesore, no doubt about that - but without it the Hope Valley would have filled up with socially-dysfunctional, lifeless, 'permanent tourists', causing house prices to rocket, meaning locals were forced to leave and live in the cities.

Thank god that's not happened!!





Oh hang on.... :(

Sparow pit gets my vote - that place is a complete toilet

In answer to the original question, there are a few - I would say Dove Holes and Hope are leading the way.

My home village of Bamford isn't much to look at either to be fair, and like every village has it's beautiful spots if you know where to look.

Ha ha! When I read Bradway, I thought they probably meant Bradwell ! I have lived in Bradwell for 6 years. The people who live here aren't too bad, the thing is it's a very "local village, for local people!" and too be honest most people ,including me enjoy it being that way.Once youv'e been here a while, everyone says "hello" in the street,but I think it takes a few decades to become a real local !
I would hate it to be packed with tourists ,like our neighbouring villages(Castleton, Hope,Edale and Hathersage). So that's probably why tourists don't feel quite so welcomed here nd it's not packed with tourist shops( you'd be lucky to find the icecream shop open, and I noticed it's cheaper in big supermarkets anyway!)we 're not after your money, like most touristy villages.Although it does have quite a large antiques centre(opposite post office).
The chippy alone is worth a visit though,it's very good.(it is shut all next week though, and on sundays, and tuesday evenings).
We are the closest village to la farge cement works though, which I think is a really ugly eyesore, but the" locals" don't seem to mind it.
I have to defend Bradwell, it does have many good attributes.

Oh, how could I forget.......Bradwell's delicious ice cream comes from........Bradwell!

Cant say that I have noticed any really bad villages in the peaks!

What about Ladmanlow, just out of Buxton, nothing more than a few houses on a road junction.

This coming from people who live in Sheffield...? :roll:

The Peak District is like heaven compared to this craphole.

I second this statement!

You never grew up in Buxton then. LOL

Sparrowpit:hihi: Only went through it because I was lost. The few houses and scruffy looking pub dont justify a stop.:gag:

This coming from people who live in Sheffield...? :roll:

The Peak District is like heaven compared to this craphole.

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

I think Glossop , its so grey

I think Glossop , its so grey

So do I but

A) It's not a village
B) It's not in the Peak District

Hathersage ,with its industrial chimney,factory units and railway completely ruin the view up the valley from the surprise.

There are lots of very picturesque villages in the Peak District, but just for a change, which gets your vote as the ugliest one?

For me it has to be Dove Holes, on the road between Castleton and Buxton. Drab drab drab grey buildings that suck the life force from me every time I drive through. It looks like a horrible dump.

Any other nominations?

Our family has had a joke that Dove Holes is the most boring place to live on Planet Earth. My Dad once played a cricket match there, and me, my sis, Mum and Nan went for a bit of a walk. Everyone was getting up to their windows to look at us, as it was the only excitement they got! I have to note though, they had some fabulous gooseberry bushes growing there, so I suppose that wasn't too bad!

I vote for Ashhopton Village.....its literally a complete pile of rubble....and also under water

Its easy to suggest Stoney, it suffers from the A623 traffic but if you get away from the road, either up the hill or the Eyam side then you will great housing with bags of character and a vibrant community, i have a number of friends who love living there.

Yes, Stoney is lovely apart from that horrible, dangerous, busy road. It's a lovely place to live, great community spirit.

You people have obviously never been to the tiny desolate hamlets of east Lincolnshire, bleak bleak bleak.

Chapel-en-le-Froth. No matter how it tries to give itself a poncey French name, a pig wearing lipstick is still a pig.

Haha.

Metheringham Fen in Lincolnshire is a good example of weird yellowbelly planning, a row of about 6 council houses next to a farm, surrounded by about 10 miles of fields in any direction, the wind often blows buses over out there.

Hope is pretty awful looking.

Hope is pretty awful looking.

A lot of villages have their rough parts when you think about it, but housing design and tastes vary throughout the years. I'm sure we'll look back at the "ghettos" in these villages in 50 years and view them fondly.


But it's like I used to say, even if you lived in the back of an old Ford Anglia, as long as you woke up to a view of Winhill, Mam Tor or Stanage you'd be a happy person.

Edit: Whoever said Dove Holes is bang on, what a frightening place. I used to hate playing football up there in my youth, you had a job to make it out in one piece!

That horrible cement works thing. Not sure exactly where it is but it should be pulled down.

That horrible cement works thing. Not sure exactly where it is but it should be pulled down.

I agree it's an unpleasant view, you can see it from everywhere in the valley, but half of my family worked there in the past, and a lot of my mates still work there now, so I can also see it as a necessary evil. Many families in the area possibly wouldn't have survived at the time without it, as the tourism industry wasn't anywhere near as developed as it is now.

The factory was also probably there long before the Peak District became a national park.