Buxton is surrounded on three sides by the Peak District National Park, the oldest National Park in England. It is “a treasured landscape of exceptional natural beauty shaped by the interaction of people and nature over thousands of years”. Lying at the heart of the country and surrounded by urban areas, it is easily accessed by millions of people. It covers 555 square miles (1,438 square kilometres) in parts of the counties of Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester.
Visitors have travelled to bathe in Buxton's mineral waters for thousands of years but Buxton is also deservedly renowned for its beautiful Georgian and Victorian architecture - much of it linked with the 5th Duke of Devonshire's ambitions to create a spa town to rival Bath back in the 18th century.