The Walton le Dale Community Website

The Walton le Dale Community Website is back online

Walton le Dale Community (Local Guide) Website 2025

Welcome back to the Walton le Dale area web site. This site was developed, originally in 2000, as a guide to facilities in the Walton le Dale area. It’s been offline for about six months, but has returned in July 2025. There are details on this site, or links to other sites, which provide access to useful public information relative to the area. There are also articles and pages that discuss the history and geography of Walton le Dale.

Since contributing to a number local Facebook Groups over the last few years, generally with articles and photographs relating to local history, I thought it would be worthwhile resurrecting the site. I can now include a lot of the social media content on the website.

On earlier incarnations of the site, which can all be found on the Internet Archive 'Wayback Machine' website, much of the historical content was 'borrowed' from other sources and slightly adapted. The new content is now very much 'stuff' that I have written myself.

The site can be found at:

https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

Walton le Dale Community (Local Guide) Website Screenshot 2025

Previous Versions of the Website

Previous versions of the Walton le Dale Community Website can be found on the Internet Archive 'Wayback Machine' website.

2016 - 2024 Version

https://web.archive.org/web/20240319195253/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

2013 - 2015 Version

https://web.archive.org/web/20130620153448/http://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150812072533/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

2011 - 2012 Version

https://web.archive.org/web/20111008004531/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120221163743/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

2005 - 2009 Version

https://web.archive.org/web/20050208014943/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070205104833/https://www.waltonledale.co.uk/

2000 - 2004 Version

https://web.archive.org/web/20020314172037/http://www.waltonledale.co.uk/home.cfm

https://web.archive.org/web/20040407134305/http://www.waltonledale.co.uk/home.cfm

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