Porter Valley Parks

Lying along the valley of Porter Brook, they run radially out from the city centre, providing a direct green-space connection to the Peak District national park.

[3] National Cycle Route 6 passes through parts of Bingham Park, Whiteley Woods and Porter Clough.

[citation needed] In 1924 Patrick Abercrombie said of the parks, "The Porter Brook Parkway, consisting as it does of a string of contiguous open spaces, is the finest example to be found in this country of a radial park strip, an elongated open space, leading from a built-up part of the city direct into the country, the land occupied being a river valley and so for the greater part unsuitable for building.

The park is home to three monuments dedicated to Queen Victoria, as well as the "Mi Amigo" memorial and ten American Oak trees, marking the crash site of a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress.

[1] Long but narrow, and for the most part with steep wooded sides up the valley, its south-western end extends 4.3 miles (7 km) from the city centre, to join up with the Peak District.