Buxton puts ‘great town’ on signs

Buxton is celebrating being the smallest town ever to be chosen as a great town award finalist by adding the accolade to all the welcome signs on its outskirts.
Judges from the Academy of Urbanism were in Buxton yesterday (Wednesday) as the town bids for the Great Town 2014 award. Photo contributed.Judges from the Academy of Urbanism were in Buxton yesterday (Wednesday) as the town bids for the Great Town 2014 award. Photo contributed.
Judges from the Academy of Urbanism were in Buxton yesterday (Wednesday) as the town bids for the Great Town 2014 award. Photo contributed.

Buxton Town Team, supported by the University of Derby Buxton, Vision Buxton, the Trevor Osborne Property Group and the Pavilion Gardens, has paid for the extra signs at main roads leading into the town.