Showing posts with label River Derwent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label River Derwent. Show all posts
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Cromford Moor Mine and the legend of the Black Rocks

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Assailed by hay fever, flying insects and stinging nettles, Gareth Icke is our guide for a walk in the hills above the Derwent Valley in Der...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Derwent village is emerging from beneath Ladybower Reservoir

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The current drought is having a striking effect in Derbyshire, where the village of Derwent is emerging as the waters of Ladybower Reservoir...
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Monday, July 29, 2024

Tracing the route of the lost Derby Canal

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Another day out with Steve and friends for LeiceExplore , this time tracing the route of the Derby Canal, which was closed to navigation in ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The drowned village of Derwent emerges from the waters of Ladybower Reservoir

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The Derbyshire village of Derwent was sacrificed to the construction of Ladybower Reservoir during the second world war. Its buildings had a...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Drowned villages rise from the waters of Ladybower Reservoir

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The Derbyshire villages of Derwent and Ashopton were demolished and then drowned when the Ladybower reservoir was constructed in 1944. In dr...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

A disused railway in Derbyshire is being turned into a canal

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One of my favourite stretches of canal is the five miles from Cromford to Ambergate in Derbyshire's Derwent Valley. I first came across ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

In search of Birchinlee, the lost village that built the Derwent dams

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It's time for another trip to the valley of the wonderful Derbyshire Derwent with Trekking Exploration. This time we go in search of the...
Monday, February 13, 2023

The tunnel under the Peak District that brings water to Sheffield

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Extraordinary landscape and extraordinary engineering. The Rivelin Tunnel takes water from Ladybower Reservoir in the Derwent Valley and del...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Uncovering the secrets of the Cromford Canal

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An enjoyable trip to the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire as Paul and Whitewick follow the abandoned Cromford Canal. The canal once connected wi...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Joy of Six 1010

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"Clarke roots his theories in the politics of the contemporary left and has identified three mythologies that need to be overcome if th...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

A walk round Cromford 1

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We were in an English lesson in the lower sixth and the people taking Geography were off on yet another field trip. We may have advanced ...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2020

The Derwent Valley in snow and flood

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From the Britain on Film site: From the Big Freeze of 1963 to gales, landslides and, most memorably, the major flooding of December 19...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The cricket ground at Cromford

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You'll find Cromford's cricket ground in the meadows beside the Derwent with views of the hills beyond.
Friday, February 21, 2020

Inside St Mary's, Cromford

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In Cromford last summer I found St Mary's church open because Excellent Women were at work inside. So I took some photographs. The...
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Monday, October 08, 2018

The Nottingham Canal joins the Trent at Meadow Lane Lock

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You can get on to the towpath by Nottingham Station, and from there it is a mile to where the Nottingham Canal meets the Trent at West Br...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Five miles east of Shardlow: Trent Lock at Long Eaton

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I liked Shardlow , where the Derwent and the Trent and Mersey Canal join the River Trent . So yesterday I visited Trent Lock, five miles ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Where the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Derwent join the Trent

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Shardlow is not quite where the Trent and Mersey Canal meets the River Trent. The junction is about a mile east of the village. The ca...
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

St Mary, Cromford

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There is something incongruous about this late 18th-century church, which stands among stone outcrops and beside the River Derwent. ...
Saturday, February 03, 2018

Six of the Best 765

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Replying to the Michael Meadowcroft article included in the last of these round ups, Paul Holmes says a good targeting strategy is essent...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Matlock Riverside and Peak Rail

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One of the strongest candidates for a British railway line that should never have been closed is the Midland to Manchester through Derb...