About – The Walton le Dale Community Website

About this website

The Walton le Dale Community Website is back online

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 was 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.

The initial purpose of the site, about a quarter of a century ago, was to provide a platform locally to promote my web design business. It also served as a platform to try different technologies and promote other local business in the process. Google hadn’t yet begun to dominate the online search market, so many searches would pass through the site.

The 2025 version of the site will be very much aimed at promoting local heritage and local history.

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earlier incarnations of the site, which can all be found on the Internet Archive ‘Wayback Machine’ website, much of the historical content was ‘borrowed’ from other sources and slightly adapted.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.