The River Derwent flowed freely, long before we humans came along. It is the life blood of the valley. Carving its way through limestone ...

John Chamberlin reports with words and pictures from his club's recent mission up the Derwent valley... A bunch of ten intrepid explorers...

John Leyland reports again with words and pictures from the Derwent around Belper. During the hot weather in mid-June a friend encountere...

John Leyland and the Belper-Milford Massive report with words and pictures from their evening womble this week down the Derwent at Milfor...

Duffield Paddle Peaker John Leyland reports from his latest splash down the Derwent below Milford. I had planned a summer evening paddle ...

Local community group Paddle Peak are often out and about cleaning our local river Derwent of plastic and other forms of pollution that u...

Cleaning the River. Saving the Sea... The Paddle Peak group was out again this week removing more hay bale black plastic wrapping and net...

After all the high water events of the last few months, there has been a large amount of rubbish and plastic left all the way down the De...

The Paddle Peak crew and family were out cleaning the the River Derwent Valley again on Christmas Friday. The team cleared flood debris f...

Instead of consuming on Black Friday the Paddle Peak Team have been out cleaning the river again, renaming the day “ Black Bag Friday! “ ...

Instead of consuming on Black Friday the Paddle Peak Team are going out cleaning the river again, renaming the day “ Black Bag Friday! “ ...

Paddle Peak, a community group of Derbyshire paddlesport businesses, clubs and professionals have been out in canoes and kayaks all of la...

Between October 21st-27th The Paddle Peak Group are cleaning the River Derwent from Rowsley to Milford and beyond!! Cleaning rubbish from...

Paddle Peak headed up by Escape UK ( Belper based adventure providers ) and Peak UK ( Darley Dale based paddlesport equipment manufacture...

Calling all Cromford, Matlock Bath and local area youngsters. Fancy trying kayaking? Come along to Cromford Mill over the bank holiday we...

The Paddle Peak Project was officially launched on Friday evening in Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mill. The birthplace of the industr...

I’ve just noticed that the EA has built a canoe portage including steps and nicely landscaped pathway around the weir on the Derwent at W...

Just been checking out potential portage spots from the River Derwent to the Cromford Canal at Leawood Aquaduct. Harry found this great s...

A team of local Derbyshire Paddlers headed up by local kayaking equipment company Peak UK just cleaned the River Derwent from the Matlock...