About Hayfield
Hayfield is a thriving village that sits quietly at the foot of Kinder Scout – the Peak District's only mountain – within the world famous Peak District National Park.
With fabulous restaurants, many welcoming village pubs, specialist shops and outstanding scenery, Hayfield is a Peak District gem. There's also live music, great beer, property to die for, and, as they say, those hills are made for walking! Where else can you enjoy the rural idyll and be within 40 minutes of Manchester city centre?
For a small village Hayfield has a host of annual activities including the gruelling Fell Races, the annual Wells Dressing and the May Queen Festival.
And the village abounds with fascinating history. A former tiny staging post on the pack-horse route across the Pennines from Cheshire to Yorkshire, Hayfield grew into a bustling hive of activity with the arrival of the cotton industry in the 19th century. The picturesque centre of the village remains and boasts a fine church and a number of old cottages as well as being packed with amenities.
One kilometre north of the village is the hamlet of Little Hayfield where the original mill has been sympathetically converted into apartments, and the hamlet pub is called The Lantern Pike after the sharply pointed adjacent hill over which the Fell Races are run (among others!).
About The Peak District
Established in 1951, The Peak District National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the world. It was the first national park to be designated in the British Isles and its proximity to Manchester and Sheffield and easy access by public transport have boosted its popularity.
Those who visit the area are in search of peace, tranquility and adventure and the park offers some of the finest caving, walking and cycling opportunities in England.
An area of outstanding natural beauty, The Peak District National Park covers 1438 square kilometres lying mainly in Derbyshire but also covering parts of Staffordshire and Cheshire, and it includes part of the Pennine Way which starts in the park at Edale.
It is an area of enormous geological diversity based on limestone and is roughly divided into the Dark Peak and the White Peak. The Dark Peak in the north of the park is high and wild and its bleak hills, capped with gritstone, are scattered with military aircraft wrecks.The White Peak in the south of the Peak District National Park has gentler scenery and boasts many caves.
Sites not to miss include Kinder Scout in the Dark Peak; Chatsworth, Millers Dale, Monsal Trail and Tissington Way in the White Peak.
 Chatsworth House |
 The Chesnut Centre |
 The Heights of Abraham |
 The Imperial War Museum |
 Jodrell Bank |
 The Lowry |
 Lyme Park |
 Manchester Airport |
 Manchester City FC |
 Manchester United FC |
 MEN Arena |
 Museum of Science & Industry |
 The National Trust |
 Peak District |
 Peak Tours |
 Quarry Bank Mill |
 Speedwell Cavern |
 Twenty Trees Photography |
 The Trafford Centre |
 Urbis |
 Visit Manchester |