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2017.05.21 - Matlock - Hall Leys Park, ~ SE to St Gile's Church, ~ ESE up to Riber Castle, E then S to Dethick, Lea, Wakebridge, Dukes Quarries, N at Cromford Canal, High Peak Junction *, up old rail track incline, FP to Moorside, ~ N through Cromford, skirt quarry on E side & then ~ WSW to Town End Farm, Bonsall, pick up Limestone Way ~ N then NE into Matlock - leader Andrew Irwin - Sunday (* photographer broke off here )


Hall Leys Park in Matlock



leaving park

St Giles Church

The Duke William (Public House)

looking back - St Giles Church in foreground



passing Riber Castle

Riber manor House, 1633 year marking just visible top right

looking back at Riber Castle

pond just before Dethick

Manor Farm - also now a B&B - It was once the home of Anthony Babington, executed for his ill-fated plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots and put her on the throne of England after assassinating Elizabeth I. The plot also resulted in Mary's execution.

St John the Baptist Church at Dethick

We turned past this barn near Lea. (Leas most notable family is the Nightingales - Florence Nightingale stayed at Lea Hurst during the 1880s, nursed her mother and rendered charitable work in the nearby areas)

Crich Memorial - The Sherwood Foresters World War Memorial

Dukes Quarries

along the Cromford Canal

tunnel taking the Cromford Canal

The tunnel behind takes a railway line. The Cromford Canal crosses the railway track here in an aqueduct

Little Grebe (also known as a Dabchick)


Leawood Pumping House

* photographer broke away from walking group at High Peak Junction and continued to Cromford Wharf - pictures here-on not with group





Cromford Wharf



Canal boat trips on Cromford Canal (only part now navigable)

The Arkwright Spinsters