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2015.11.08 ** Start
Point SK 278/740 (Clod Hall) nr confluence of Bar & Blake Brooks,
Wellington Monument, down Baslow Edge & across to Curbar, Calver Mill, Stocking
Farm, Mill Headrace to New Bridge, over Hare Knoll to Calver, up to Deep Rake,
down through Bleaklow (Farm?), Longstone Edge, Longstone Moor Farm, White Rake,
Wardlow, Cressbrook Dale to Mill, up to & along Monsal Trail, Bakewell - about
16+ miles - leader Richard Bennett - Sunday (gloom & rain made pictures fuzzy)
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These are the graves of the Cundy family victims in1632 of
the plague that was to devastate Eyam and London 34 years later |
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Sloe berries |
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unusual conical roof structure to this small building |
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Curbar Edge behind |
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Curbar Pinfold once used for stray cattle & sheep |
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Calver Mill - now residential accommodation |
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Bridge Inn |
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Calver Mill alongside River Derwent |
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Stocking Farm |
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Calver Mill headrace in front - River Derwent (which is
ponded upstream to feed the headrace) behind |
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Curbar Gap behind at top |
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Calver village |
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upwards toward Deep Rake & Longstone Edge |
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Deep Rake |
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Bleaklow (farm?) |
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cows to milking? |
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Longstone Moor Farm |
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break near White Rake?, |
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looking into Cressbrook Dale |
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slippery limestone on path down to Cressbrook |
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Cressbrook Mill - now residential apartments |
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disused headrace to Cressbrook Mill |
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pond for headrace |
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River Wye below pond |
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overflow from pond (into River Wye) |
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looking back at Cressbrook |
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looking back at Cressbrook |
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River Wye downstream of old railway viaduct below Monsal
Head |
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upstream of viaduct |
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Headstone Tunnel |
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protective structure at tunnel adit |
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last 'station' photographed - two further 'stations'
including Bakewell not taken - light fading. |
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