Home Things To Do Search Tissington Trail Explore things to do Category Select from these options Food and Drink Just for Two Family Friendly Historic Britain Great Outdoors Enter Your Destination From Date To Things To Do Suggested Getaways near Tissington Trail More Suggested Getaways Home Things To Do Tissington Trail Tissington Trail Ashbourne to Parsley Hay Just for Two, Family Friendly, Great Outdoors The London and North-Western railway opened its line between Buxton and Ashbourne in 1899 and closed it in 1966. The line was purchased by the Peak National Park and Derbyshire County Council in 1971 and reopened as the Tissington Trail, for cyclists and walkers. The southern end of the trail starts just out of Ashbourne, on the Mapledon road, and the northern end is at Pomeroy cottages, just south of Sterndale Moor - the rest of the line to Buxton is still in use as a freight line for the quarries. The track north of Parsley Hay was shared with the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which branches off eastwards just south of Parsley Hay station - this is now the High Peak Trail. Cyclists on the Tissington Trail The trail makes for a very pleasant day out and is not too strenuous to cycle along, with mostly very gentle gradients. (You might be entitled to expect this on a former railway line, but it is not true of the nearby High Peak Trail!) Explore all Attractions & Events Contact Info Ashbourne to Parsley Hay no telephone Visit website Other Things to Do in the East Midlands Region Gainsborough Old HallMuseum of Lincolnshire LifeSir Joseph BanksThaymar Ice Cream, Farm Shop and Tea RoomCranwell Aviation Heritage MuseumPennine Way - National TrailMaxey's Farm ShopSpace CentreManor Farm Park & WoodlandsHaddon HallPink Pig FarmBurghley House - Lincolnshire