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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 )
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Hall Leys Park in Matlock | |
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leaving park | |
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St Giles Church | |
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The Duke William (Public House) | |
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looking back - St Giles Church in foreground | |
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passing Riber Castle | |
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Riber manor House, 1633 year marking just visible top right | |
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looking back at Riber Castle |
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pond just before Dethick |
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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. |
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St John the Baptist Church at Dethick |
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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) |
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Crich Memorial - The Sherwood Foresters World War Memorial |
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Dukes Quarries |
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along the Cromford Canal |
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tunnel taking the Cromford Canal |
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The tunnel behind takes a railway line. The Cromford Canal crosses the railway track here in an aqueduct |
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Little Grebe (also known as a Dabchick) |
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Leawood Pumping House | |
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* photographer broke away from walking group at High Peak Junction and continued to Cromford Wharf - pictures here-on not with group | |
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Cromford Wharf | |
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Canal boat trips on Cromford Canal (only part now navigable) | |
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The Arkwright Spinsters | |
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