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The Derwent Valley is a delight. It's got natural beauty and such a breadth of industrial revolution interests.
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Tis a lovely walk indeed DG. Last time I walked along the Cromford Canal from Ambergate, I combined it with a walk up the old railway trackbed up to Wirksworth and then took a very nippy bubble car down the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway to Duffield. Fabulous day out - looks like you had one too.
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I do like a good canal walk, and this one sounds like a cracker!
I last visited Derbyshire 10 years ago, so return trip is long overdue. |
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Several years ago, I ran the White Peaks marathon, which was surprisingly flat if not downhill. I think it followed the route of an old railway line. It finished in Cromford.
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Yes, an important part of the history of the industrialised world. Those nostalgically regretting that we ever set out on such a pathway, and disapproving thirteen hour days, should perhaps remember that the life of, say, a hand weaver was probably even worse.
I do like the canal pictures, though. |
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It's over ten years since I visited Arkwright's Mills, so I wonder if they still explain how a worker's shift was timed by a clock driven by the main gearing. If the gearing was halted by accident or for repair then the clock stopped and the shift-time expanded to cover the down time.
And while Arkwright's Mills are splendid, you appeared to have missed the other main highlight of Cromford: Scarthin Books, one of the loveliest bookshops I've ever visited. dg writes: See last photo, also here. |
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We had our works outing to Matlock Bath last year, and a colleague and I spent the morning in Cromford, greatly enjoying the mill and a brief canal walk. There's a little stub of the Cromford Canal left at the Langley Mill end, and I've moored on it.
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I am really surprised that nobody has yet acknowledged your unique description of High Peak Junction - the 'wilfully unlikely transport interchange'.
Pure, classic DG - Splendid ! |
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There had been seven comments. You really need to lower your surprise threshold :)
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'... noted with a moderate level of interest that........' ;-) |
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