Evidence for a possible Roman road between Little Chester (Derby) and Wirksworth is presented at this website: http://www.conferencesdirect.co.uk/clacton/The%20Ridge-way.pdf
Parts of the route eg between the Chevin and Alport Height are similar to the Portway, but as the research is based on the quest for an engineered (Roman) road surface it is clearly different from a prehistoric routeway, which [...]

For many years the Hemlock Stone, an impressive sandstone column on the fringes of Nottingham, has been virtually ignored by historians, although a subject of much interest and speculation to Victorians, who developed some fanciful speculation of links with Druids.
In The Derbyshire Portway it is seen as a possible routemark on the south-eastern section of [...]