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Planning a visit to Tideswell in the Peak District? Find out the best places to eat, drink, stay and walk with our quick visitor’s guide <\/p>

By Roly Smith\n <\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 25 October 2023 at 13:53 PM<\/p>

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Tideswell (local nickname \u201cTidser\u201d) has the prosperous, urban air of a small town. The Peak District<\/a> village is perhaps best known for its magnificent parish church of St John the Baptist, known with some justification as \u2018the Cathedral of the Peak\u2019, and described by Sir John Betjeman as \u201ca grand and inspiring church\u201d.<\/p>

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St John the Baptist church, also known as the Cathedral of the Peak in the beautiful village of Tideswell in the Peak District\/Credit: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Things to do in Tideswell<\/h2>
The present 14^{th<\/sup>-century Decorated-style church is a stately building with a wonderfully light and airy chancel, and is a rarity among parish churches in that it was almost entirely built within one period \u2013 in about 70 years from 1300. This gives the elegant, cruciform church a wonderful uniformity of appearance, missing from so many other churches. Only the impressive turreted and pinnacled west tower was added later, in the newly-fashionable Perpendicular style.\u00a0<\/p>}
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St John the Baptist, Tideswell\/Credit: Geograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>
The right to hold a market at Tideswell was granted early as 1251, and at one time, Tideswell held five markets a year for cattle<\/a> and local produce. Those days are recalled in the name of the restored cobbled Pot Market, near the church.\u00a0<\/p>
Tideswell hotel<\/h2>
Among a range of other interesting, mainly 18^{th<\/sup>\u00a0century, buildings which grace the village is}The George Hotel<\/a> near the church, which dates from the latter years of that century and features the then-fashionable Venetian-style louvered windows.<\/p>
Tideswell walk<\/h2>
A short walk just to the south of the village is Tideswell Dale, a Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve which is noted for its beautiful flowers and exposures of columnar basalt rocks.\u00a0<\/p>
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Tideswell hotel<\/h2>Among a range of other interesting, mainly 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century, buildings which grace the village is The George Hotel<\/a> near the church, which dates from the latter years of that century and features the then-fashionable Venetian-style louvered windows.<\/p>

Tideswell hotel<\/h2>
Among a range of other interesting, mainly 18^{th<\/sup>\u00a0century, buildings which grace the village is}The George Hotel<\/a> near the church, which dates from the latter years of that century and features the then-fashionable Venetian-style louvered windows.<\/p>