Cavendish Arcade

Peak District


Covered by a barrel-vaulted, stained-glass canopy, Cavendish Arcade houses boutiques selling upmarket gifts.

Glass floor panels reveal the thermal baths (on the site of earlier Roman baths) that were once here.


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