Parking
Don't be put off by the tucked-away location of the bookshop - there are places to park if you know where to find them:
- along the Prom (free)
- Market Place (free)
- Water Lane (free)
- Cromford Mill
- Cromford Canal
By Bus & Rail
Another way of reaching Cromford and Scarthin Books is by the NOTTINGHAM-Derby-Matlock-Bakewell-Buxton-Stockport-MANCHESTER Transpeak TP 1 Coach Service. Click on it for the timetable. This drops you off or picks you up on the A6 Derby Road, one side or other of the main traffic-lighted crossroads. This service is a real boon, connecting us, hourly for much of the day, to three of the neighbouring metropoles. Public transport over the moors to/from Sheffield or Stoke requires more cunning, unless you actually live at Meadowhall Shopping Centre.
About three-quarters of a mile from the bookshop is one of Cromford’s other miracles, the Cromford Railway Station, connecting us to the Really Wide World and from which which I have been achingly seeing my children off to such destinations as Mongolia, Belgium, China and Cardiff for several decades. The station would make a wonderful film-set for such as The Railway Children, Dickens’ The Signalman or even, with its gothic Stationmaster’s House, Psycho. The Matlock-Derby Rail service now runs through to Nottingham as well as connecting haphazardly with London trains. I’ve done my best to link with a TIMETABLE via the annoyingly over-perfect on-line booking pages. As for planes into the East Midlands Airport, well…..