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2014.06.29 - Derwent Valley Heritage Way - Matlock to Belper* - leaders Angela Coles & Gillian Manasse - Sunday

* Matlock (Hall Leys Park), High Tor, Matlock Bath, Cromford Wharf & Canal, High Peak Junction, further on Cromford Canal to before Ambergate, across River Derwent The Birches, Whitewell Road, Wyver Lane, Belper Bridge & Horse Shoe Weir, direct to Bus Interchange - (most of group & photographer unfortunately missed out seeing millworkers cottages etc)  

Chesterfield Spire seen from bus
Hall Leys Park
 
 
River Derwent
 
 
High Tor
up to High Tor
 
 
warning on sheer drops to river below
 
 
 
Riber Castle at back
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
we turned left toward Matlock Bath railway station - did not go under arch
gondolas to Heights of Abraham
 
 
 
 
Matlock Bath 1914 - 1919 war Memorial
 
Matlock Bath
 
 
 
 
 
 
fish fed by public
Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mills
 
 
 
 
Masson Mills seen above River Derwent
 
 
Cromford Canal Wharf
 
 
 
 
 
an intruder
 
boat trips by Friends of the Cromford Canal
 
High Peak Junction
14.5 mile long Cromford Canal - memorial plaque to Engineers William Jessop & Benjamin Outram
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wharf Shed
 
Leawood Pumphouse
 
viaduct taking Canal across the River Derwent below
 
 
 
viaduct taking canal over railway line below
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robin Hood Village
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Canal now a Nature area
 
in The Birches
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nature Reserve
 
 
 
mills seen from Belper Bridge
Horseshoe Weir
 
 
direct toward the bus interchange
 
 

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