The routes are full of railway heritage such as old wharves, engine houses, signal boxes, pump houses and workshops
Start Ashbourne, Parsley Hay, Cromford or anywhere else on the trails
Distance 17½ miles (High Peak) and 13 miles (Tissington)
I didn’t realise how much faster you can cycle on a tandem until I hired one with a friend for a ride along the Tissington Trail. We bombed along between the drystone walls, leaving our girlfriends far behind but equally gleeful in each other’s company.
The trails — among the oldest in the country — were once railway lines and form two sides of a triangle in the Peak District. You can complete the triangle by following country