Showing posts with label peak district. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peak district. Show all posts
Monday, 24 May 2010
Monday, 4 January 2010
Ladybower Reservoir and Fairholmes from Bamford
This was a shorter trip due to the much shorter days of winter. Starting at Bamford station and ending up at Fairholmes before returning the same way.Took about 4 hours in all.
Bamford Church
Looking up towards Bamford Edge
View across Ladybower Reservoir
Bamford Church
Looking up towards Bamford Edge
View across Ladybower Reservoir
Monday, 9 November 2009
Chatsworth at Christmas
There can be few better places to visit for atmosphere at Christmas than Chatsworth house in Derbyshire.The house stays open until just before December each year and is decorated in a different Christmas theme from early November.
The house viewed along the canal pond
The chapel
The painted hall
The library
The dining room
The sculpture gallery
The house viewed along the canal pond
The chapel
The painted hall
The library
The dining room
The sculpture gallery
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Parwich to Alstonefield
Another walk in the peak district. This time starting at Parwich and then on to Alsop en le Dale,Alstonefield and then to Milldale and down Dovedale back to Ashbourne. Unfortunately the BBC weather forecast was hopelessly inept yet again and after promising nothing but sun the cloud came by the time I reached Parwich and stayed for the rest of the day. The BBC weather forecast has proven again and again to be nothing but a vague guess and has let me down time and time again.
I started at Ashbourne when the sun was still out.
Parwich Village was pleasant but not particular picturesque and not as good as many other peak district villages.
After a short walk I came across Alsop en le Dale, a very small village with a small church.
After a steep hill climb from Lode mill I came across Alstonefield which was a larger and much nicer village with some very pretty cottages and a lovely church.The Old vicarage.
Inside the church with the home made cushions for kneeling
It was then a short walk downhill to Milldale to rejoin the Dovedale walk back to Thorpe and then Ashbourne
I started at Ashbourne when the sun was still out.
Parwich Village was pleasant but not particular picturesque and not as good as many other peak district villages.
After a short walk I came across Alsop en le Dale, a very small village with a small church.
After a steep hill climb from Lode mill I came across Alstonefield which was a larger and much nicer village with some very pretty cottages and a lovely church.The Old vicarage.
Inside the church with the home made cushions for kneeling
It was then a short walk downhill to Milldale to rejoin the Dovedale walk back to Thorpe and then Ashbourne
Friday, 11 September 2009
Monday, 25 May 2009
Tissington Well Dressing 2009
Tissington is a very picturesque village in Derbyshire about 4 miles north of Ashbourne. It is most famous for being the mother of all well dressing villages and has 7 wells dressed for the week.
The small village Butcher's shop
The Church stained glass window depicting Noah's Ark.
Well dressing consists of erecting boards covered in clay, into which thousands of flower petals are pressed to create an elaborate tableaux of some biblical or topographical scene. It is probable that well dressing took place here in 1348, in thanksgiving for the village’s escape from the Black Death, which the villagers attributed to the purity of its water. Tissington having escaped the plague, while other local villages had been ravaged.
Tissington Hall which is open to visitors on certain days of the year and during well dressing weekend.
The biggest well is Hall well opposite Tissington Hall.
The small village Butcher's shop
The Church stained glass window depicting Noah's Ark.
Well dressing consists of erecting boards covered in clay, into which thousands of flower petals are pressed to create an elaborate tableaux of some biblical or topographical scene. It is probable that well dressing took place here in 1348, in thanksgiving for the village’s escape from the Black Death, which the villagers attributed to the purity of its water. Tissington having escaped the plague, while other local villages had been ravaged.
Tissington Hall which is open to visitors on certain days of the year and during well dressing weekend.
The biggest well is Hall well opposite Tissington Hall.
Friday, 20 June 2008
Monday, 13 August 2007
The Peak District,Kinder Downfall from Hayfield
Unfortuneately the hope valley railway does not stop at Hayfield any more so I had to get off at New Mills station and then walk for about 1 hour to get to The car park near hayfield.
This is am old mill in New mills.
The Kinder reservoir
Looking up to the Kinder Plateua over the reservoir.
Kinder downfall which was just a trickle of water when I wentand exteremely windy.
The view from the top looking back to Kinder resrvoir.
A highland cow nearby.
This is am old mill in New mills.
The Kinder reservoir
Looking up to the Kinder Plateua over the reservoir.
Kinder downfall which was just a trickle of water when I wentand exteremely windy.
The view from the top looking back to Kinder resrvoir.
A highland cow nearby.
Monday, 6 August 2007
Sheffield,The Peak District and Stanage edge
I had over an hour at Sheffield station which allowed me to visit the cathedral
And the winter gardens which appeared to be nothing more than a few indoor shops with palm trees along the interior.It looked better fromn the outside actually.
Hathersage parish church
and the nearby grave of supposedly Little John
The view over Stanage edge
From the road looking up.
On the way back I went by North Lees hall where Charlotte Bronte stayed and based her novel Jane Eyre.
And the winter gardens which appeared to be nothing more than a few indoor shops with palm trees along the interior.It looked better fromn the outside actually.
Hathersage parish church
and the nearby grave of supposedly Little John
The view over Stanage edge
From the road looking up.
On the way back I went by North Lees hall where Charlotte Bronte stayed and based her novel Jane Eyre.
Saturday, 4 August 2007
Chatsworth Park
I had been to Chatsworth House twice before but have not yet been around the park so I decided to walk from Matlock station.This took about 90 mins to get to the start of the walk at Beeley.As it was the summer school holidays the park was very full as was the Chatsworth Park shops and cafe but it was still surprisingly sparse up at stand wood and on the walk back to Beeley.
Beeley parish church
Inside Beeley church. Like many churches in the area it was open for all although deserted when I went inside.
The Chatsworth park which is free and surrounds the house and gardens.
An old mill next to the river Derwent.
This is Edensor, an interesting village with one main street and the church at the end of it.I did go in the church but a wedding was about to commence so I did not have a chance to take pictures.
A view of Chatsworth house with the grand cascade in the background
The old hunting tower behind the house on top of the hill.
The house from across the bridge.
Behind the house
Bridge which transports the water from the lake to the fountain next to the house.
Cars going to and from the house through the park
From Beeley moor I followed the footpath along the stream back down to Beeley.
On the way to Beeley I saw this fine cockeral.
Beeley parish church
Inside Beeley church. Like many churches in the area it was open for all although deserted when I went inside.
The Chatsworth park which is free and surrounds the house and gardens.
An old mill next to the river Derwent.
This is Edensor, an interesting village with one main street and the church at the end of it.I did go in the church but a wedding was about to commence so I did not have a chance to take pictures.
A view of Chatsworth house with the grand cascade in the background
The old hunting tower behind the house on top of the hill.
The house from across the bridge.
Behind the house
Bridge which transports the water from the lake to the fountain next to the house.
Cars going to and from the house through the park
From Beeley moor I followed the footpath along the stream back down to Beeley.
On the way to Beeley I saw this fine cockeral.
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