Solomans Temple was designed by G.E Garlick and built in 1896 by public subscription officially known as Grin Low Tower, it stands at an altitude of 1,440 feet high on Grin Low overlooking Buxton and the surrounding hills. It replaced an earlier tower of around 1835 which is said to have been built to provide work for the unemployed of the area. It also served the Victorian and Edwardian walkers as a shelter, as many medical cures for people coming to take the waters involved bracing walks and a large amount of good clean air there is no doubt that a walk to Solomans Temple certainly fulfils both of these.

The site is an ancient Bronze age Barrow and was excavated by local archaeologists in 1894 prior to the construction of the new tower, the area on the hillside around and in Grin Low Woods had since the seventeenth century been the site of extensive lime burning and you can see evidence of the old lime kilns and as this area is now part of Buxton Country Park you will find information boards describing what they looked like and how the kilns were operated, many of the workers who were very poor would build dwellings in the lime ash and old copper engravings of these can be seen in Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, considering the severity of Buxton winters this must have been a very uncomfortable and hard existence.

As Solomons Temple stands so high above the town, the walk is only for those fit enough to tackle the steep and mostly uneven climb, you can park in the public Car Park at the bottom of Grin Low woods next to Pooles Cavern, (Green Lane) climb up the steps and the path through the woods to the stile at the edge of the wood, or you can park in the other public Car Park next to the old Grin Quarry, (Ladmanlow) which is now The Grin Low Caravan Club Site, follow the signs and pathway from there, if you decide to make the climb looking in the opposite direction to Buxton you can see the wild moors of Axe Edge ( name means water 'source' edge ) where the source of two great rivers begin The Wye and The Goyt, if you pick a clear fine day then the views are stunning and your standing on top of the world.