Ilam Park & Part Of Dovedale

The River Manifold is a river in Staffordshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Dove (which also flows through the Peak District, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire).The Manifold rises at Flash Head just south of Buxton near Axe Edge, at the northern edge of the White Peak, known for its limestone beds.

Ilam ( ) is a village in the Staffordshire Peak District of England, lying on the River Manifold. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 402.

Ilam Park is a 158-acre (0.64 km2) country park situated in Ilam, on both banks of the River Manifold five miles (8 km) north west of Ashbourne, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. The property is managed as part of the Trust's White Peak Estate.(Ashbourne, the 'post town', is in Derbyshire and thus so is Ilam's postal address, but the Park, and Ilam, are in Staffordshire the county boundary being the River Dove).

The White Peak Estate (previously known as the South Peak Estate) of the National Trust comprises several land holdings in the Southern Peak District. The holdings, totaling some 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), are managed from the estate office in Ilam and comprise:Ilam Park, including Ilam Hall which is let to the Youth Hostel Association (YHA)Dovedale from Thorpe Cloud to Wolfscote Dale and Biggin DaleWetton Hill and Wetton MillOssam's HillHamps Valley Woodlands (and Beeston Tor)Grindon MoorEctonLand at MonyashAlsop MoorStanton Moor EdgeRavenstor YHATaddington WoodHigh WeeldonWinster Market House (the National Trust's first property in the Peak District, 1906)Dovedale itself was acquired in 1934, and a string of acquisitions followed until 1938; Wolfscote Dale was acquired in 1948.