Matlock - iLiveHere: Best & Worst UK Towns Reviewed

As you drive into Bakewell on a public holiday or weekend, you cross the beautiful Victorian bridge and enter the town centre, by which point you will be losing daylight and will have to turn around and go back through the traffic Tokyo of England, where children are taught from a young age to ignore […]

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Matlock: arcades, cafes, chippys, and bikers coming out of our ears

Is Matlock a nice place to live or is Matlock rough?

Where to begin. Matlock may well be in the doomsday book and it seems that word, doom, features in many of the people’s lives here. With a vast selection of 13+ charity shops that would charge the same amount for the rags they sell as Armani would for a full suit, many residents seem satisfied […]

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