Wedding Photographer Derby — Cathedral Quarter, Peak District Gateway and the Derbyshire Countryside
Derby is the gateway city to the Peak District — within twenty minutes of the city centre you can be on Stanage Edge or in the Derwent Valley; within thirty minutes you can reach Chatsworth or Haddon Hall. The city itself has a compact and handsome Cathedral Quarter with a medieval silk mill, the second-oldest working railway workshops in the world and a Victorian Market Hall that has been an arts and events venue since its restoration. As a Derby wedding photographer, I work across the city, the surrounding Derbyshire countryside and the full range of Peak District locations that are within easy reach for a Derby-based wedding day.
Derby City Venues and the Cathedral
Derby Cathedral — the Cathedral Church of All Saints — is the county church of Derbyshire, rebuilt in the eighteenth century with a soaring Perpendicular Gothic tower dating from 1527 and a distinguished collection of monuments. Kedleston Hall, three miles north-west of Derby and owned by the National Trust, is one of the finest neoclassical houses in England — a Palladian pile with a celebrated Marble Hall and parkland designed by Capability Brown. Derby’s collection of country house hotels within the county includes the Morley Hayes, the Breadsall Priory and a growing number of converted farmstay venues in the south Derbyshire countryside.
Derbyshire and the Peak District Beyond Derby
The Derwent Valley immediately north of Derby is one of the birthplaces of the English industrial revolution — the Arkwright mills at Cromford and Belper are now UNESCO World Heritage sites and provide an unexpected combination of industrial heritage and Derbyshire countryside for documentary photography. Chatsworth House, twenty-five minutes from Derby, is the pre-eminent wedding venue in the county and its parkland photography opportunities are unmatched in the East Midlands. For couples choosing Derby as their base but wanting landscape portraits in the Peak District, the gritstone edges of Stanage, Curbar and Froggatt are less than thirty minutes from the city — wild, windswept and distinctly northern.