A star-studded journey around the Peak District's movies, novels and TV series
With its rugged crags, soft valleys and dramatic lighting, the Peak District looms large on our screens. Great authors have been inspired here for centuries. From Jane Austen to Stephen Booth, Charlotte Brontë, Berlie Doherty, William Wordsworth to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Now actors and directors come too. Comic romance Pride and Prejudice, dramatic Jane Eyre, WWII classic The Dam Busters, doctor drama Peak Practice, hit comedy The League of Gentlemen are all filmed in the Peak District. Film stars came to shoot The Other Boleyn Girl and The Duchess in recent years.
See for yourself the places that star in films, books and TV. And enjoy blazing your own trail through our creative and inspiring landscape.
Downloadable Guides and Trails
Hathersage Audio Trail
Explore the connections Hathersage has with Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice as well as some of the village's ancient places (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).
Hope to Bamford Audio Trail
Take a stroll with a Roman medic, an Anglo-Saxon thane and ‘Dambuster' Guy Gibson and discover a long and varied history in the Derwent and Hope Valleys. You will hear dramatic re-enactments from the past as your ghostly guides take you on this linear walk from Hope to Bamford (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).
Hathersage Jane Eyre Trail (PDF 614kb)
Download the trail and step into the pages of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, visiting locations Charlotte knew and drew inspiration for places and people in her novel. Also explore locations from Pride & Prejudice, the film, the grave of Robin Hood's sidekick Little John, a Romano-British village, Norman fort, historic church and breathtaking moorlands.
Acknowledgements
Written by: Georgia Litherland
Photography: Bill Bevan, CHC Choir, the Chatsworth Estate, Berlie Doherty, Haddon Hall, Patrick Regan, Rudyard Lake Trust, David Slade, Craig Thornber, N. Tryner.
Our thanks to all the photographers, some of whom also have web sites which helped our research.
Our thanks to: Peter Riley and Carcanet Press for extracts from Alstonefield; Canal+ for use of the Dam Busters film images; 4th Estate for extract from Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders; Visit Peak District for Jane Eyre stills; HarperCollins; Penguin Books; EM Media.
