Beautiful Lancashire

[Happyman]

Here is one for you !!!
If you are ever up that way I would like to know what you think of the place !!
Found the image a while ago and cannot find another defended village anywhere - its a bit lonely in my database !!!







Milburn is a village three miles north of Temple Sowerby.
It is a classic example of a medieval fortified village, with its sandstone houses arranged around a 4.5 acre rectangular green. The green was only open at its four corners, making it easy for defensive purposes as well as useful for penning in sheep. These corner entrances were walled up each winter. Access to the village was through narrow easily defended gaps between the houses.

[Mathos]

I had every intention of doing some more on Castleton tonight, with the castle and other bits and pieces. However, I was looking through these landscape photographs and got carried away with them. Fantastic really to look at the rugged beauty we have here on our doorsteps.



It's amazing what happens to the planet over millions of years.

Things come and go, oceans, forests, jungles, lakes, rivers and no doubt a great deal more besides.




Spectacular when you look at places like this and think about it for a little while.




Looks like a well worn trail going up the side of this steep hillside. Has to be regular use by the sheep. Can't see a farmer taking a regular walk up here.

There are two of them chomping away, not giving a toss about anything and virtually staring death in the face with one wrong footing or a slip.

See them up in the right hand side of the photograph.

It's wonderful really.

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Here is one for you !!!
If you are ever up that way I would like to know what you think of the place !!
Found the image a while ago and cannot find another defended village anywhere - its a bit lonely in my database !!!







Milburn is a village three miles north of Temple Sowerby.
It is a classic example of a medieval fortified village, with its sandstone houses arranged around a 4.5 acre rectangular green. The green was only open at its four corners, making it easy for defensive purposes as well as useful for penning in sheep. These corner entrances were walled up each winter. Access to the village was through narrow easily defended gaps between the houses.

Thanks for that Happyman, I'll make a note to check it out, it looks very interesting.

Link here for Temple Sowerby, it's an interesting place.

Temple Sowerby, Cumbria
A brief guide to the Cumbrian village of Temple Sowerby, in the Eden Valley

This one too re Milburn:-

1. Milburn
   Penrith, Cumbria
   
   
   

[Happyman]

Got the pic from here -

Aerial Photographs by Simon Ledingham on VisitCumbria.com

Can spend hours looking through this site ! and I do !!!

[TSR2]

Hi Mathos I was told by TD that you tried to message me yesterday, try again
regards TSR2

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Got the pic from here -

Aerial Photographs by Simon Ledingham on VisitCumbria.com

Can spend hours looking through this site ! and I do !!!

That's a really good link too.

I like it.

Cheers.

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by TSR2

Hi Mathos I was told by TD that you tried to message me yesterday, try again regards TSR2

OK Will do that.

[Mathos]

Sunday and Monday were really nice days for the time of year. I thought I'd place one of my garden on the thread showing the signs of Autumn coming in quite naturally of course.




Flobo had Sky News on a few minutes since it showed about 30 seconds of street protests in BKK,

Just seen the thread on TD with regards to the same, if it's genuine it looks rather grim.

If they kick off foolishly and it's on the world stage with no holds barred, the country is going to be FUBAR.

I hope it settles and sorts itself out as peacefully as possible.

Lousy day here today with regards to the climate. Rain, rain and more rain. Heavy winds on the Moors and Coastal areas etc etc.

Still it's great to be here, we had a bit of a run out. Not to The North of The Lake District as we had intended, we had planned a good route too. It'll keep until the weather is suitable.

One of my grandsons was up there though on a school trip.

They had to make a hasty retreat from the hills due to the severity of the weather. A river had turned bad on them and they were caught in quite a severe surge via a bit of a flash flood whilst making a crossing. Saturated, but all ok.

You know what lads are !

We called into the village of Hoddlesden, it's not exactly a brilliant location, nice enough and there is a lot going on with regards to improvements and additional development.

Some attractive property here and there though.



Did a couple of this terrace, one from the other side, I liked the appearance.



Those high steps are great.

This was nice too for the time of year especially.



Interesting roads and plenty of leaves falling here.

[Mathos]

There was quite an attractive looking pub in the Village as well.



The Old Mill-Wheel had been suitably positioned to be an attraction of merit.

Somebody had posted a favourable comment on The Net as well:-


FAB
Current


THE FOOD IS TOP HERE, JUST MAKE SURE YOU GO VERY HUNGRY AS YOU GET ALOT. LAMB SHOULDER, FISH AND CHIPS, LAMB CHOPS, EVRYTHING IS THE DOGS KAHUNAS.

Quite a decent link here as well regarding The Village with some attractive 'Winter Time Photographs'

Hoddlesden a Lancashire village Hoddlesden Reservoir ( The Lodge) contains Carp, Tench and Pike-( enquiries tel 01254

There was a very attractive looking small café/fish and chip shop on the square too.



The Cenotaph and garden area was nicely maintained.



This 'Shetland Pony' was out on the hillside just outside of the Village.

He looke quite old, but all the same rather cute, according to Flobo.



It's years, since I last saw one of those I'm sure.

[Mathos]

It's surprising how the work required in the isolated places is carried out and everything works to a level meeting the requirements.



There's quite a bit of attention and labour gone into this bridge, drains and feeding the water to a small stream further down the valley.

Onto the rivers and then to the sea.




Since talking to Happyman on here with regards to so many things that our land can tell us, I tend to look more in depth at areas, than I have ever done.

I'm holding on though, I daren't read more into the same than there is.



There really are some spectacular places.

This particular photograph is fantastic in my book anyhow. It deserves to be viewed on full screen mode though to get the best out of it.



The traffic never stops on these UK Motorways.

I found the skeletal remains of a deceased sheep too on the moors. Still a good bit of fleece about. The head, jawbone, spine and a horn. Rest of it had been swallowed up and long gone, the foxes and other wild life would soon have finished it all off.



Obviously I have no idea how it met it's end. Could have been hit by a car, fox, dog, age, accident.

Not to worry though, it's nature.

All those trickles and flows of water find their way to a common stream though as mentioned.




The Landscape changes quite dramatically too.





You can make out the road on the top left hand side of this one as well.

There is obviouasly a great deal shouting out from this scene. I'll leave it Happyman to decipher for me though.

I'm lost.



The black wall affair has me banging my head on the floor!

This one was neat.



It put some rain down though today.

[Mathos]

This looked like it could have the makings of a beautiful home.




It appeared that work had ground to a halt on the same.

I was interested and made a few enquiries. It was previously a pub..

Work appeared to be have been carried out to convert the same to a private home.

However, it gave me the appearance that nothing had been done to the property for many months.

There's an extremely interesting link here too.

Buckstones House, New Hey Road, Marsden:: OS grid SE0113 ...
This has been the Buckstones Inn not many years ago (still in Pubsulike, who

I have one or two more photographs to transfer as yet of this building I'll put them on later in the week.

This was nice too. I'll write up on it over the next few days.




Oh heck!

Just remembered, I've not done Castleton Castle as yet either.

Later.


You wouldn't want to be lost on here in bad weather and darkness, that's for sure.




It never ceases to amaze me as to how much space virtually doing nothing so far as we can see, that the country has.

[Mathos]

A bit on the quiet side today.

Good nights training at the gym tonight, a couple of contest nights involving about ten of our lads coming up this month, 17th and 24th respectively.





I like to see how some of the villages and places we visit keep so much splendour in a real 'British' mode, it makes for a much better day in the overall sense of our existence I'm tempted to think.

I was looking at the private type of courtyard at the rear of these cottages, overlooking the River Sett in the really beautiful village of Hayfield and thinking how perfect a balmy summers evening would reflect perfection in all that is British in such an ideal location.




It was all rather spectacular in a general manner, so to speak.


The Village Church was attractive as well.



It's rather peculiar as well how things are changing throughout the Western World with the government bail out of the banking industry.

You might be tempted to say, we are introducing a special form of Democratic Communism.

Interest rates dropping as well.

Doesn't matter though. the third rock from the sun is still intact and turning on it's axis. Why worry about the condiments in life.



Getting back to the Church at Hayfield.

I found this on The Net:-



Transcription:

" Hayfield Church was all torn up, and the dead bodies swept out of their graves; when the flood abated they were found in many places. Some were hanging on trees, others left in meadows or grounds, some partly eaten by dogs, or wanting one or more of their members."

I thought I'd better put the link on here it makes for interesting reading and takes thoughts away from strawberries and cream or afternoon tea with hot buttered scones and home made jam.

Be sure to click on the images at the top of each page, it makes for some very good and interesting reading.


Birth of Hayfield Parish Church
This transcription of a 1909 History of Hayfield Parish Church was made by members of the: Hayfield Historical Archive Group from the original document : ...
www.virtualparish.net/HC1909-06.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


There's another link here as well. Good and very informative.


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<LI class=g>Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District
Hayfield sits peacefully in the narrow valley of the Sett surrounded by some of the wildest and most beautiful scenery in the Peak District.
Discover Derbyshire and the Peak Districthayfield.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages



If you follow the River Sett to the left hand side of this photograph you can see it drops rather abruptly over a weir.

It was a very attractive feature:-

You wouldn't want to be dropping off there on a big inner tube for instance.



Those Ducks must be quackers playing about near that edge though!



It's a fair old drop.

[Mathos]

Following the course of the River through a section of the town was a really nice venture.




Even the Heron waiting by the waters edge was happy enough to pose.




After the main weir, the River took on a decent rate of knots as well.



There were some really attractive sections along the River Bank.



Folk appeared to be making the most of such an asset as well, which was good to see.



I wondered if the 'sand-bags' were obligatory, precautionary, or a simple manner of stopping folk knocking on your door to see if you would sell them your house.



It didn't surprise me to notice there wasn't a single Chinese Restaurant in town.



I thought they must do a bit of boating when the water levels high enough. or maybe it was a crossing at some time in the past.





All in all it was a brilliant walk though, and the weather remained quite good for the time we trudged along the bank.



I could imagine sitting out on that balcony with a pint of Bodds! and enjoying a real good summers night.

[Happyman]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Since talking to Happyman on here with regards to so many things that our land can tell us, I tend to look more in depth at areas, than I have ever done.

I'm holding on though, I daren't read more into the same than there is.



There really are some spectacular places.




The traffic never stops on these UK Motorways.

There is obviouasly a great deal shouting out from this scene. I'll leave it Happyman to decipher for me though.

I'm lost.



The black wall affair has me banging my head on the floor!

Hey Mathos !
Have a calculated guess and then start digging .

Back in circulation for a few days so I shall ignore all those pics of trout streams that you keep posting, and just look at the recent ones !!

First one looks like spoil heaps from surface mining of some sort.

Second one needs a little TLC applied to that wall - give me a week or so with my hammer and I will get it sorted !

Third one is interesting - have no idea of scale but it "looks like" a sett bench.

Behind the wall there is an overgrown Quarry.

A sett bench is where the secondary quarry men used to square up the stones for building or roads using just a hammer and chisel !!- on piecework !!!! Two old pence each at the turn of the last century !!! Six pence for a bloody granite railway sleeper !!!

The taller stones on the side were what they put their workpiece on and the finished setts were stacked on top of the bench - at a height where they could be loaded onto a cart.

I have blown the pic up as far as I cant "guesstimate" the height - Sett benches I have seen in the past were about 5- 6 foot high .

Cheers

[Happyman]

BLOODY HELL you bugger !
While I was doing my reply you stuck some more river pics on !!!

[Happyman]

Another site you may find interesting !

WELCOME TO WWW.ROMAN-BRITAIN.ORG

got some good info and references there!


Cheers!

[Mathos]

Happyman wrote:-

Hey Mathos !
Have a calculated guess and then start digging .

Back in circulation for a few days so I shall ignore all those pics of trout streams that you keep posting, and just look at the recent ones !!

First one looks like spoil heaps from surface mining of some sort.

Second one needs a little TLC applied to that wall - give me a week or so with my hammer and I will get it sorted !

Third one is interesting - have no idea of scale but it "looks like" a sett bench.

Behind the wall there is an overgrown Quarry.

A sett bench is where the secondary quarry men used to square up the stones for building or roads using just a hammer and chisel !!- on piecework !!!! Two old pence each at the turn of the last century !!! Six pence for a bloody granite railway sleeper !!!

The taller stones on the side were what they put their workpiece on and the finished setts were stacked on top of the bench - at a height where they could be loaded onto a cart.

I have blown the pic up as far as I cant "guesstimate" the height - Sett benches I have seen in the past were about 5- 6 foot high .

Cheers

Great assistance from you as usual. Thanks a lot for the same. It makes it all much more interesting.

He also wrote:-

BLOODY HELL you bugger !
While I was doing my reply you stuck some more river pics on !!!

I know, look at this too, just to remind you of the House Boat Days:-



These were in a small basin:-





Since talking to you about barges, and house boats, they appear to turn up on every corner.

They're almost as common as Morris 1000 Travellers.




I had to take the modern car out of the frame, it looked much better I thought.






They were brilliant little cars too.

Flobo used to have a Morris Minor when she passed her test.

A black one, I gave about £25..00 for it in 1967. She called it her Batmobile.

And he passed on a further additional link:-

Another site you may find interesting !

WELCOME TO WWW.ROMAN-BRITAIN.ORG

got some good info and references there!


Cheers

It's an extremely interesting site Happyman.
Cheers.

[Mathos]

Strange day today:-

They forecast heavy rain, but it's 11 PM right now and we still haven't had any.

I was glad about that though.

I did a fair bit of work outside, had to call in the Docs for the Bride of Dracula to take some samples for a cholesterol and all sorts of other checks.

That meant fasting this morning, it made me realise after two hours how fortunate I am not to have been born a Muslim.



Some times, I look at a photograph and see something in it, then it makes me think.

This particular one drew me to the subject I had in mind at the time of taking the same.

The Sky.

Actually there is a great deal in the photograph, but the sky in this one, probably as it had been such a dull day weather-wise in general and then seeing the first hint of blue, must have been rather special in the effect it has on the brain.


Somebody mentioned today, that we must be a very privileged nation in having so much beauty in such a small country.


I could neither argue nor disagree with a statement like that.





There's something special in being a 'Brit'




Some things in our culture especially defy normality in their unique beauty.

[Mathos]

Flobo took a couple of photographs of interest as well.

This particular one was of the University of Derby in Buxton, what an an impressive rotunda appearance this had.




It was a very spectacular looking building.

I n fact if you spend a little time to study the same very carefully, it's spectacular.


This one too:-


The London and North Western Railway.

Brilliant:-


Some really interssting information here: Well worth a read and follow through accordingly:-

There are some brilliant links in the listed attraction below, well worth a look at:-

The Railway Scene

Buxton Online Pages
¤ Home Page
¤ Accommodation
¤ Amenities
¤ Architecture
¤ Archives
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¤ Buxton Author
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¤ Carnival
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¤ Chapel-en-le-Frith
¤ Derbyshire Villages
¤ Boroughs
¤ Events
¤ Geology
¤ Humour Pages
¤ Museum
¤ Wild Flowers
¤ Outdoor
¤ Solomon Temple
¤ Pavilion Gardens
¤ Buxton Old Town
¤ Local Attractions
¤ Goyt Valley SSSI
¤ Goyt Valley Walk
¤ Hartington
¤ French Twin Town
¤ Well Dressings
¤ Whaley Bridge¤ Links
¤ Site Map



> Derbyshire Railway - Images From The Past <In the beginning...

When the railways came to Buxton during 1863, two companies, The London and North Western, whose line arrived from Manchester to the north, and The Midland Railway, which came from Derby in the south, had stations which were similar in layout, each having a magnificent, yet identical window arched in stone and bearing the names of these proud companies.

These were designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, who had already made a great impression and influence on the town's architecture. Only the impressive window of the L&NWR company, can still be seen in situ. The Midland Railway station fell into disuse after the demise of steam operation in 1968, when the line to the south-east was closed under the Beeching axe.

This station has long since vanished, and the remains of the site disappeared entirely, when the construction of the ring road that skirts the town centre and Precinct, was built. Only the lower portion of the end wall, along with a few MR posts, are all that remain at the top of the station approach. They alone give evidence of this once magnificent company's presence within the town.



The third of Buxton's stations consisted of a single platform to the north of Lightwood Road, and just beyond the old railway sidings along the L&NWR line. This was known as Fairfield halt, and was constructed to serve the golf course on Fairfield common.

Long after these companies came to Buxton, the L&NWR decided that it would take its own line southwards, in order to connect up with the North Staffordshire Railway Company at Ashbourne, and thence to London. This line is marked by the viaduct that crosses Spring Gardens, plus a further magnificent feat of engineering, the viaduct that spans Duke's Drive, to the south-east of the town. Just before the line crosses Dale road, Buxton had a fourth station, Buxton South.

The site of this is opposite the new housing where St Anne's School once stood on Pevril road. This line to Ashbourne was closed to passenger traffic after only 50 years of use, although for quarry freight, it continues to be used taking diesel hauled trains along the track that climbs towards the quarries at Hindlow, which is a few miles to the south of the town.

However, this does not mark the beginning of the railways coming to Buxton. Long before the L&NWR and Midland railway companies brought their visitors into the area, one railway existed almost solely for the purpose of moving stone from the quarries in the south of the region, to their customers elsewhere in the north of the country.

This was the Cromford and High Peak Railway. This steeply inclined line ran all the way from the canal wharfe at Cromford, some 17 miles to the Southeast of Buxton, right through Ladmanlow and on to Whaley Bridge in the north-west, where traffic joined the Peak Forest canal basin within the town.






The line skirted around Buxton at Ladmanlow, to the west. For a very short time, this railway did carry passenger traffic on a limited scale.

Unlike the two major railway companies, the C&HPR faced very steep gradients along certain sections of its line. The visitor can still see where these gradients were, today.

The Sheep Pasture incline, at the Cromford end, forms part of the C&HP Trail, but during the line's working life, this incline was accessible by rail traffic where it utilized a cable and chain gravity system.

At the Middleton incline, an impressive steam driven winding engine helped to bring wagons laden with stone up and down this particular section of this line. Further towards the north-west, and just above the Goyt valley, there is another very steep incline.


London and North Western Railway Boundary Stone
Stockport-Buxton Ticket - 60's
Disley-Buxton Ticket - 60's


Whaley Bridge to Dove Holes
Half Ticket
During the 1960s, this part of the route was coverted into a road, allowing vehicular and pedestrian access into the Goyt valley itself. This is the Bunsall incline, and as any walker will testify, it is rather steep going when climbing back up towards Buxton. On the approaches to Whaley Bridge, the line was confronted by a further incline at Shallcross.




Not so long ago, plans were laid to reinstate the rail link from Buxton to Matlock, Derby and beyond.

It was hoped to run passenger steam hauled trips over the course of the old Midland Railway company track bed. Although still in situ part of the way, it first runs along Ashwood Dale towards Blackwell Mill Junction, then as the track bed through to the tiny village of Millers Dale and on towards Bakewell and finally Matlock.The Lines Today



Despite the huge amount of money and human resources spent on trying to re-open this line, it appears that those in charge, felt that it would be best to do more for the southern-most end, since their attempts to re-open the line were hampered by British Railways, who owned the track at that time.

And so, once more, Buxton's old Midland Railway site, owned by Peak Rail, was cleared of the engines, rolling stock and rails that stood there patiently awaiting restoration, then slowly thereafter, nature decided to take hold of this now empty yard.



Recent news states, it is intended to have yet another feasibility study of the possibilities of re-opening the Buxton to Matlock railway line. Once again, the powers that be have decided against re-opening this truly beautiful railway route through the Peak District.

Although those busy days of Buxton's rail scene are long over, it none the less plays host to interesting rail traction that visits the town now and again.

Steam specials have visited the town more recently (2007), a sign that steam may yet play a more important role in Buxton's railway future. Freight trains still run along what remains of the line through Ashwood Dale and on to the ICI quarries near Peak Dale.
45057 seen on shed at Buxton during summer 1981. This class of engines has now all but disappeared. One or two remain in the hands of preservation.

It's here, that the line forms the old route to London from Manchester Central Station during the final years of use.

Continuing, the line passes Peak Forest station, through the Dove Holes tunnel and the picturesque town of Chapel-en-le-Frith, and on towards Manchester via Chinley. Passenger traffic continues to link Buxton with Stockport and Manchester, along the L&NWR route to the north of the town.


Photographic contributions to the rail community are always welcome, and may consist of scenes modern and old. Please e-mail me beforehand to say what you have to offer. All images will be fully credited to the photographer concerned.




RCN Gallery of Railwayana






Buxton Railway Station - August 2007
Information Board - February 2008

Buxton Railway Sign - 2008. A Reminder of British Rail

[Mathos]

I found a couple more photographs I had taken of the 'Buckstones' it's a very interesting property indeed.

I keep coming up against brick walls in searching these gems out. Obviously they are in demand but the waiting game after bidding is being professionally played out. I have a few lists and hope the same eventually go to the sale rooms.

Auction sales of property like this can be very interesting at times.




The view below is from the property looking out across the road.





It has a nice appeal to it. Plenty of water.





It's certainly located well out of the way.





As you can see though, it's not exactly a million miles away from civilisation.

The countries far too small for that.





You might struggle for the morning paper in winter though!




Flobo and myself were just talking though regarding the present time of year, three weeks time or thereabouts and the clocks go back. By the time we get to December it will be dark for 4.30 pm.