Welcome to Buxton Hotels

At 1,030ft above sea level, Buxton is said to be the highest market town in England. Another Buxton tag is that it’s the gateway to the Peak District, and herein begins the magic. I got off the train at the wrong stop – overbearingly unmagical Macclesfield – and was thus shanghaied into making the final leg of the journey to hotels in Buxton Derbyshire via bus. It was the kind of grey Peak District day when the air feels like a damp pillow being pressed to your face, except with even worse visibility. We carved into the countryside, the bus crawling around wet green crags, before the mist thickened further and even the sheep in roadside fields were lost to us. Coming down a slope, one side of the road was guarded by a wall of heaped stone. Beyond it we could see nothing but mist.