Foxes' Retreat Local Area Guidebook
Food Scene
Good value, with a good range on the menu to suit many tastes. A 5 minute drive through Okeover Park, or a 15 minute walk.
7 locals recommend
The okeover arms
Yerley HillGood value, with a good range on the menu to suit many tastes. A 5 minute drive through Okeover Park, or a 15 minute walk.
The Old Dog
Excellent range of beers and food. Rhubarb cider a highlight!
Thai Basement
Delightful Thai food in the middle of Ashbourne.
Simply wonderful Indian food, freshly prepared. Book ahead to ensure a table, as it is almost impossible to get one on the spur of the moment. It is well worth planning for this!
10 locals recommend
Anayas Premier Indian Dining
25 Dig StSimply wonderful Indian food, freshly prepared. Book ahead to ensure a table, as it is almost impossible to get one on the spur of the moment. It is well worth planning for this!
The Cheese Shop is a place of wonderment, with speciality local cheeses on sale in the middle of a beautiful village
9 locals recommend
The Old Cheese Shop
Market PlaceThe Cheese Shop is a place of wonderment, with speciality local cheeses on sale in the middle of a beautiful village
Delicious lunches and cakes, as well as ice-creams, to eat on your walk or to sit in the wonderful garden room or out in the pagodas/potting sheds. Dogs welcome, a great stopping point
16 locals recommend
Ramblers Retreat
Red RoadDelicious lunches and cakes, as well as ice-creams, to eat on your walk or to sit in the wonderful garden room or out in the pagodas/potting sheds. Dogs welcome, a great stopping point
Arts & Culture
Good Art for sale, with a delicious menu upstairs in the cafe. Cake definitely lovely, plus a range of interesting light bites and lunches.
The Gallery
6 Victoria SquareGood Art for sale, with a delicious menu upstairs in the cafe. Cake definitely lovely, plus a range of interesting light bites and lunches.
Derby QUAD
Market PlaceVariety of exhibitions
Good range of food and drinks in the cafe
Ashbourne Park
19 Cokayne AveWelcoming library, plenty of local interest books
45 minutes at most from Foxes' Retreat will place you at a great day out finding out about the pottery industry that Stoke on Trent is famous for - lots of factory shops with bargains near to the museum too!
36 locals recommend
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Uttoxeter Road45 minutes at most from Foxes' Retreat will place you at a great day out finding out about the pottery industry that Stoke on Trent is famous for - lots of factory shops with bargains near to the museum too!
A wonderful day time cafe, and arts centre for live music and cinema screenings in the evenings.
9 locals recommend
Foxlowe Arts Centre
Stockwell StreetA wonderful day time cafe, and arts centre for live music and cinema screenings in the evenings.
Trentham Estate
Stone RoadBeautiful gardens as well as a venue for outdoor music events
Parks & Nature
This has a visitor centre with interactive exhibition, along with sailing (lessons and courses available, or boats to hire), cycle hire, a round the water walk/cycle path of just over 8 miles, through beautiful countryside and woodland, along with nature reserve areas.
163 locals recommend
Carsington Water
This has a visitor centre with interactive exhibition, along with sailing (lessons and courses available, or boats to hire), cycle hire, a round the water walk/cycle path of just over 8 miles, through beautiful countryside and woodland, along with nature reserve areas.
Ilam Park
Beautiful National Trust area to explore
Beautiful walk through Dove Dale which is mainly accessible for all - with levelled paths to see the stepping stones. Coffee/ice-cream stall and toilets in the car park.
26 locals recommend
Dovedale Stepping Stones
Beautiful walk through Dove Dale which is mainly accessible for all - with levelled paths to see the stepping stones. Coffee/ice-cream stall and toilets in the car park.
A lovely small wildlife park with some surprises for all the family to enjoy. 15 minutes from Foxes' Retreat
76 locals recommend
Peak Wildlife Park
A lovely small wildlife park with some surprises for all the family to enjoy. 15 minutes from Foxes' Retreat
A great outdoor space to use for cycling, walking, running, families
22 locals recommend
Markeaton Park
Markeaton LaneA great outdoor space to use for cycling, walking, running, families
Bandstand, duck pond, what else could you want on the edge of a historic market town?
6 locals recommend
Ashbourne Park
19 Cokayne AveBandstand, duck pond, what else could you want on the edge of a historic market town?
Our nearest zoo with large animals is an hour away from Foxes' Retreat. It is a conservation zoo, focusing on breeding programmes to ensure release for greater numbers of endangered animals
58 locals recommend
Twycross Zoo
Burton RoadOur nearest zoo with large animals is an hour away from Foxes' Retreat. It is a conservation zoo, focusing on breeding programmes to ensure release for greater numbers of endangered animals
Shopping
Equatorial Shop
3 Victoria SqColourful clothes suitable for everyone, but tending to a 'hippy' slant!
Avanti Jewellers of Ashbourne
Church StreetJewellery store with unusual and interesting pieces
FatFace Ashbourne
35/39 Market PlaceGood range
Joules
24 Market PlaceGood range
Large indoor shopping mall in Derby (25 minutes from Foxes' Retreat and parked in the centre)
27 locals recommend
intu Derby
London RoadLarge indoor shopping mall in Derby (25 minutes from Foxes' Retreat and parked in the centre)
Cafes and shops on the edge of Trentham Gardens, ideal for lunch and a bargain or two!
11 locals recommend
Trentham Shopping Village
Stone RoadCafes and shops on the edge of Trentham Gardens, ideal for lunch and a bargain or two!
Essentials
Parking here is free for 2 hours as long as you are shopping in Sainsburys.
41 locals recommend
Sainsbury's
11 Castle Bridge RdParking here is free for 2 hours as long as you are shopping in Sainsburys.
ALDI
Carnation WayNearest supermarket on the edge of Ashbourne
Closest shop to Foxes' Retreat, with a petrol station, car wash and Post Office inside
Gulf Duke Of York Filling Station
Closest shop to Foxes' Retreat, with a petrol station, car wash and Post Office inside
Getting Around
Bus Station
Just by Sainsburys, very central to town. Buses to Uttoxeter, Leek, Buxton, Derby
Railway Station (Stop S1)
Railway and bus links onwards to Foxes' Retreat