The Quest for England
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 […]
Today I am visiting the Papplewick Pumping Station in Nottinghamshire. Ashley Smart is the manager and takes me round to explore the Victorian Utility building – and what a building! Papplewick Pumping Station, situated in open agricultural land approximately 3 miles by road from the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water […]
Today I am up in Guildford in Surrey to meet with Chris from the Hairy Wanderers Youtube Channel (Link below). Chris has agreed to show me Lewis Carroll’s grave and the Booker Tower. The Hairy Wanderer’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYg-FDQZr4L4xRiY1jToqJg Carroll was the third child born to a family of eleven children. From a very early age […]