Sheffield gets excess kudos due to the mountain brilliant bikers connected with it. The Peaks area is brilliant ok to ride in.
Hope that helps! 😉
Chesterfield is an odd one. It actually has some really nice areas to it.
Brampton, up Chatsworth Road and out towards Brookside/Holymoorside/Old Brampton/Walton etc are all decent.
The top of Newbold Road out towards Cuthorpe & Barlow also good.
and mountain biking, climbing, walking, gliding, and everything else, I mean, apart from that what has Sheffield got to offer that Chesterfield doesn’t?
Hate to split hairs but aren’t they all about the same distance from Chesterfield?
Not really. A big chunk of Sheffield sits inside the Peak District NP. Also the climbing areas like Stanage and cycling areas like Wharncliffe are much closer to Sheffield (and Barnsley for that matter).
Psychologically I always think of Chesterfield as the ‘North Midlands’ and Sheffield as being part of ‘The North’.
Unstone could well be the ‘Great Divide’ even though historically it was ‘Meersbrook’