Exploring Heritage, Landscape and Nature
As part of my exploration of the wonderful Peak District, Kevin Hall and Sue Blount have taken me to an area in Staffordshire called The Roaches. The Roaches (from the French les roches – the rocks) is a prominent rocky ridge above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Peak District of England. The ridge with […]
This is part two of a walk from Gradbach Mill to Lud’s Church in the Peak District. If you missed the first part, do go back and enjoy that. We have arrived at this remarkable feature in the Satffordshire landscape. ud’s Church (sometimes written as Ludchurch) is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock […]
Today Kevin Hall, Sue Blount and I are heading off to Lud’s Church, a nature chasm in the ground formed after a landslip. This is part one of our journey. Lud’s Church (sometimes written as Ludchurch) is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock created by a massive landslip on the hillside above Gradbach, […]
Continuing my exploration of the Peak District. Today I am in Flash, a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands, England, and the Peak District National Park. It is currently the highest recognised village in the United Kingdom. At 1,519 feet above sea level, Flash claims to be the highest village in Great Britain. In 2007 the […]
As part of my mini series of videos exploring the Peak District, Kevin Hall and I have come to Cromford in Derbyshire. We are joined by Sue Blount who wishes to take us to Sir Richard Arkwaright’s famous mills and the original workers cottages in North Street where weavers lived and had looms in the […]
This is the beginning of a short series of videos exploring the Peak District in England with my friend Kevin Hall. Today we are exploring the Longshaw Estate and the Padley Gorge. Padley Gorge is a deep but narrow valley in the Peak District, Derbyshire between the village of Grindleford and the A6187 road. The […]