Map to Accompany the Guide to Derby.

The map was designed especially for "Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire" by R. N. Worth, F.G.S., a small guide book designed for both summer tourists, those who may have been visiting the county for health cures and day trippers. The guide was published in 1890 by Edward Stanford, 26 & 27, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross and the map was engraved by Stanford's.

This map includes the route of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, a standard-gauge goods line between the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge and Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction. The line was opened in two parts, the first in 1830 and the second in 1831. The final section closed in 1967.

Worth hardly mentions this line, though does say:

Parsley Hay Wharf, a depôt of the High Peak Mineral Railway Company. The country here is very cheerless and bleak, and the remaining 8 m[iles] of road to Buxton, except for the distant prospects, are dreary and uninteresting, the monotonous stone walls enclosing the moorlands being only relieved by symmetrical plantations of stunted firs. Nearly a m[ile] E. of Parsley Hay is the celebrated stone cicle, termed Arbor Low.

After the line was taken up it became the High Peak Trail, starting at Cromford Wharf and extending as for as Dowlow, a little to the south of Buxton.

Edward Bradbury, in All About Derbyshire, described his own journey in 1880. See Chapter 24. Over the High Peak Railway.