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Derbyshire Villages – Rodsley

June 25, 2024 VickyP

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by Maxwell & Carole Craven Having basked in the remoteness and sequestered lanes of Harehill and Muselane, we were much tempted to stay in that wonderfully pastoral and semi-wooded landscape that lies well west of Derby but close to the south western edge of the county. Hence, last August, we ventured between Shirley and Yeaveley […]

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The Wreck of Flying Fortress ‘Over Exposed’

June 25, 2024 VickyP

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by Brian Spencer Pennine Way walkers almost at the southern end of their epic trek from Edale to Kirk Yetholm look on the crossing of Bleaklow as almost the end of the first day’s section of the ‘Way’.   Grateful to enjoy a spell of comparatively easy walking on a path made from flagstones, the […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire The Hough, Hulland

November 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

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by Maxwell Craven The standing remains of the moated secondary seat of the de Bradbourne family no longer exist for me to share with you, but, like Brizlincote Old Hall, the site is marked by a well-preserved moat, and moated sites are relatively rare in Derbyshire, although many more are recorded in the sources than […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Lea Hall, Tissington

November 1, 2023 Alistair Plant

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by Maxwell Craven Lea Hall is a sequestered little paradise, half lost between the villages of Tissington and Bradbourne which, as readers will probably know, lie in the White Peak, almost east-west of each other, although the road between the two villages, south of which Lea Hall lies, is something of an adventure, taking one […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Morley Old Hall

July 25, 2023 Alistair Plant

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For somewhere so close to Derby, and somewhere which was once on the very edge of a coal-mining area, Morley is today a remarkably sequestered spot. The village is discrete, as the archaeologists say – not nucleated, but scattered around its parish – but with a magnificent parish church, a very grand Georgian rectory and […]

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Abandoned Villages

February 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

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by Brian Spencer A quick look at the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale map of the White Peak shows that the region has a history going back thousands of years. Gothic lettered map symbols indicating tumuli, stone circles, field systems or cairns tell us that our forefathers lived and farmed on what are now the high […]

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Haddon Hall – A Sleeping Tudor Beauty

February 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

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by Brian Spencer “What we see today is basically the unaltered fortified manor house developed between the late 12th century, and 1620 when the last and minor ‘improvements’ were made” One autumn evening a few decades ago, driving home along the A6, just short of the entrance to Haddon Hall I was stopped by a […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stapenhill Hall

December 30, 2022 Alistair Plant

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By Maxwell Craven Derbyshire lost more parishes to Staffordshire than it gained under the local government reforms of 1887 and thereafter: Clifton Campville, Croxall, Edingale, Winshill and Stapenhill among them. The desire of the Borough Burton-upon-Trent to increase rating revenue, for instance, added to a sort of municipal tidy mindedness, resulting in the transfer in […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Thornbridge Hall – Ashford in the Water

January 25, 2022 VickyP

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Thornbridge was once part of the estate of the Longsdon family of Little Longstone, who claim a descent (never securely sorted out, but nevertheless highly likely) from Serlo de Longstone living around 1100 and, although the estate was held by that family (latterly spelling their name Longsdon) from the twelfth century until 1790, there seems […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk from Grin Low & Buxton Country Park

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant

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There are not many walks claiming to start downhill, but this one does (although the height lost must be regained at the end, but nothing is perfect, is it?) The walk starts from the car park accessing Solomon’s Temple before dropping down to the centre of Buxton and its Pavilion Gardens, returning by way of […]

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