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    Walks In Derbyshire

    There really is no better way to see the beautiful area that we live in than to walk in Derbyshire. Over the years we have walked what feels like pretty much the entire of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and feel it only right to share those walks with you. In every edition of Country Images Magazine we feature a walk for you to follow and now we’ve put them online for you to read too. If you have a mobile or tablet, why not follow the walks on it, with a map and an explanation of where to go it’s ideal for you to follow so as not to get lost. We hope  you enjoy the selection below and check back regularly for new walks.

     
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    Walk Derbyshire – An Amble through Ashover

    Walk Derbyshire – An Amble through Ashover

    June 25, 2024

    Set alongside the River Amber is the picturesque village of Ashover. Quaint cottages, stone houses and old pubs fill this favourite Derbyshire village of mine. It may take you a while to drive through the village as it is so pretty, with many cute cottages for you to stop and admire.  Ashover has a truly rich history with quarries, lime kilns and lead mines. It holds All Saints Church dating from between 1350 and 1419 which was built by Thomas Babington. (One of his family members was executed for plotting against Elizabeth I).  Ashover is also the home to the long standing Ashover Agricultural & Horticultural Show – this year’s show takes place on Wednesday August 14th. It is a great day out for all the family.   In the village there are three pubs, a cafe, a cute coffee shop and gorgeous little village shop which sells gifts, cakes and ice cream (cash only!). There is a lovely cricket pitch with football goals, a nice children’s park and play area, and tennis courts, so plenty to occupy you.   Adjacent to the cricket pitch is Ashover Parish Rooms now the Village Hall, which can be hired for weddings and events.  There’s a plethora of walks in and around Ashover featuring stunning views, high vantage points, buttercup filled meadows and babbling brooks. You can see why this is a favourite for myself and many other walkers.  USEFUL INFORMATION This walk is pretty easy to do. Takes just over an hour or longer if you are taking time to take in the beautiful scenery. We came through a field of cows with calves so please be careful if you have dogs. It’s a very peaceful walk which goes through fields, meadows, along the river and is easily shortened or extended. Near...

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    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Through Upper Lathkill Dale

    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Through Upper Lathkill Dale

    May 1, 2024

    It was while I put the final bits and pieces to April – Monyash edition and, mentioning in the text that it starts and finishes in Monyash, it struck me that there is another of my favourites also starting from Monyash old market square.  It is only a little under four miles, but it leads to one of the Peak District’s prettiest dales, Lathkill Dale.  Over the years, this dale has become one of my favourites and can be tacked on to any number of walks radiating from Monyash, such as the one I am about to describe.  It is strictly in two halves, an upper and lower along Lathkill Dale, with the upper having the furthest views.  This walk like the Monyash/Flagg walk, can form a figure-of-eight, radiating from the market square and back.  In total, when combined with April’s walk to Flagg, the combined distance is just under nine miles.  Although further than most of my walks published in Country Images, it should be well within the capabilities of the average fit walker on a day when the sun shines and all the wild flowers are in bloom.  There are three main features worth adding to the description of features seen along the way.  The first is noted soon after leaving Monyash, where Peakland lead mining history can be traced from the records of Monyash Barmote Court.  (The late C.H. Millington from Monyash, was the last of Peakland independent miners). The mass of narrow, stone-walled fields indicate that the land hereabouts was being tilled by Saxon settlers long before the Romans came this way, in their insatiable quest for lead. The turning point of the walk is One Ash Grange farm.  It was once a monastic outpost, so far from the parent monastery that it was frequently used...

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    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Between Monyash & Flagg

    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Between Monyash & Flagg

    April 2, 2024

    If you were living in the Peak District countryside around a hundred years ago, the chances are that you would be following a dual working schedule.  Part of your working day would be tending the needs of a dairy herd and maybe carrying out a little ploughing and growing feed crops for those valuable cattle.  The other and entirely unrelated occupation could be spent underground, frequently working alone with nothing to help see what was in nearby rocks, other than by candle power. Tools would be a simple pick and shovel.  The last independent Peak District lead miner was the late C.H. Millington who lived in Monyash. The name Monyash frequently leads to much argument with pros and cons on two sides.  There are those who say the name means ‘Many ash trees’, but the more widely read side disagree, saying the name should be based on Maneas, a title that seems to have been popular as far back as early records indicate.  Apparently Maneas means ‘wet lands’ in Saxon, a fitting title for a village built on an ancient clay bed 5million years old. This clay deposit has allowed five ponds to provide drinking water for cattle, (plus one now in-filled as a car park).  All those currently in use, are to the south of the village green, with Jack Mere to the north used for parking cars. Monyash is built around a small clusters  of cottages and a network of popular footpaths leading into Lathkill Dale form a linked network of field paths where lead miners would plod their weary way home after working underground after a day, still having to tend their cattle, or mow hay for their winter feed.  Monyash was an important centre covering a section of the underground riches.  The village even had its...

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    Walk Derbyshire – Shardlow’s Inland Port and Eighteenth Century Walk

    Walk Derbyshire – Shardlow’s Inland Port and Eighteenth Century Walk

    February 6, 2024

    When the eighteenth century Duke of Bridgewater’s fiancé gave him what we might today call the push, he decided that not only was he secretly pleased to be rid of her, but to be honest, he was also bored by London, which took up too much of her time through the London Society she frequented. Moving north, back to his estate outside Manchester, the Duke of Bridgewater didn’t take long to come up with the idea of what to do with his spare time.  He also decide how to use his growing wealth from the coal being mined beneath his estate.  This growing fortune we must realise had come about at the start of what became known as ‘The Industrial Revolution’.  What had once been carried out mainly by hand, was now increasingly mechanised, run by entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright on steam-driven spinning and weaving machines, machines demanding mechanical power.  That power was provided by steam engines, engines driven by coal.  The Duke of Bridgewater supplied a large share of the coal, but it had to be carried to the mills on the backs of mules, an extremely slow process.  So slow was the movement of coal over the comparatively short distance that mill-engines were frequently running out of fuel in their attempt to keep up with the insatiable demand for produce. The duke had the coal and the finance to develop his side of the business of producing cotton fabrics.  There were thousands of tons of the stuff lying a mere hundred feet or so beneath the ground; access to it was comparatively easy, but it was one which eventually led to a new industry, together with an expansion of the duke’s coal sales. The answer to the problem of how to reach Manchester in the shortest possible...

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    Walk Derbyshire – Fernilee & The Goyt Valley

    Walk Derbyshire – Fernilee & The Goyt Valley

    January 2, 2024

    The South Manchester town of Stockport gets most of its water from two reservoirs filling the narrow upper reaches of the Goyt Valley near Buxton.  It is hard to realise that  this was a self-supporting estate with its own coal mines and small industrial estate where gun powder was made.  Errwood Hall, the central building in this complex,  its ruins now partly hidden in a side valley draining from high moors to the west, was the home of the estate’s owners.  The family’s children were educated by a Spanish governess.  Loved by the children, when she died prematurely, her grave was placed in a beautiful woodland situation, alongside senior members of the Grimshaw family.  There is also a wayside shrine above the valley. More akin to those in the Alps it stands high on the hillside, below the summit of Long Hill road and is usually decorated by floral tributes. The Upper Goyt Valley is surrounded by high moorland surrounding mature pinewoods, to the west is a long ridge that overlooks both the valley and sweeping hills  dominated by Shutlingsloe, Cheshire’s highest hill, a steep sided cone that can claim the title of a peak, a rarity in a county more commonly known for its low-lying or flat-topped hills, than sharp-tops, better known as peaks, proof that the word ‘Peak’ in the title of the Peak District has nothing to do with sharp-pointed hills. The meaning behind this expression is said to connect the district to the tribe of ‘Peaclonders’’ who inhabited the region in Celtic times. The eastern side of the valley is mainly open treeless moorland overlooking the spa town of Buxton far below.  The heights of Combs Moss, one of the Peak District’s lesser known features, shelters Buxton from most of the cold scouring winds blowing in...

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    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk From Pentrich to Crich & Back

    Walk Derbyshire – A Walk From Pentrich to Crich & Back

    November 1, 2023

    At the forefront of the Pentrich Rising were Jeremiah Brandreth, a 31-year-old unemployed stocking knitter who had a wife and two children; Isaac Ludlam, a bankrupt farmer who owned a small quarry where he had built up a small supply of pikes; and William Turner, a stonemason and ex-soldier.  From Pentrich this walk will take you over to Crich which has its own fair share of history. The almost alpine village of Crich makes a breezy welcome to travellers.  Field paths skirting the northern limits of Crich lead to two unexpected features, Crich Stand below which is  a section of an abandoned quarry with trams running on a short length of track would once have graced the streets in places as far apart as Portugal’s Lisbon, or Blackpool promenade.  In 1840 George Stephenson discovered deposits of coal at Clay Cross and formed what later became the Clay Cross Company.  He realised that burning lime would provide a use for the coal slack that would otherwise go to waste. He leased Cliff Quarry and built limekilns at Bullbridge. They were connected by wagonway known as “The Steep”, a 550 yards incline at a slope of 1 in 5. Crich Chase Meadows  was designated as an extension of the Crich Chase Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The meadows stretch out over a steep slope, joining a patch of ancient woodland called Smith’s Rough. USEFUL INFORMATION DISTANCE: Moderate trails, field-paths and country lanes. With some muddy sections. RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale OS Explorer, Chesterfield & Alfreton. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Stage Coach East Midlands No.148 is hourly from Ripley to Pentrich and goes on to Alfreton.  CAR PARKING: Parking on the main road in Pentrich REFRESHMENTS: Various pubs, cafes and shops along the route. THE WALK :: THE WALK :: THE WALK...

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