Event details
Tuesday 28 May | 10.30am-12noon and 12.30-2pm
Free (included with your garden or house and garden ticket)
Discover some of the amazing creatures that live underneath the water – you might spot a water scorpion, a water stick insect or a dragon fly nymph. Sampling the water with nets we will identify different species before carefully returning them to their home.
Please make your way to the Trout Stream in the Chatsworth Garden (enter via the top garden gates and follow the signs to the left, up the hill). All equipment will be provided. Suitable for children and their adults.
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With so much to see, do, and explore in the Peak District, it's a shame to only come for the day, so why not stay a little longer? Our country cottages, shepherd's huts, hotels, and inns are the perfect base for exploring all that Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and the Peak District have to offer. Find out more.
