Tapton Park — Attraction in Chesterfield

Still a wonderful area despite the sad empty house, and the creation of a brutalised modern building within the old walled garden. Presumably the ancient mulberry tree that once was venerated there was chopped down. The garden remains beautiful albeit the absence of on site protection and resident gardners. The grassy hill where courting couples once lay has been trashed by someone's ego trip of a circular abstract feature that fails to match the inate beauty of the natural grassy bank that it replaced. The ancient Holly I climbed in the 1950s remains little changed Distant views and fresh air as plentiful as ever. Swathes of bluebells remain in the woods despite the arm fulls that we...

What an asset this place should be - the children’s activity area is fine, the wooded area is fine but the house is a disaster. I remember this in the 1970s and 1980s, beautiful rose gardens and walkways, a great place to be - the house was great too. Now the place just looks so run down - gardens now just don’t exist - just grass (although cut) looking very bland. Suggestion - come on Council - get your finger out and turn the house into a railway / canal museum honouring the Stephenson connection - even the maze...

Golf was a joy, the course is playing very well and looks the part, greens are getting better, one big disappointment are the bins, on the round we played I noticed that 5 of the bins were overflowing with rubbish, not all from golfers because there were many empty bottles of beer but these bins have been like this for well over a week, come on Tapton...