Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Derbyshire

Looking south-west from the Buxton Road between Earl Sterndale and Hindlow. The River Dove runs beneath the snow-capped limestone crags on the skyline. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

Deep in the Dove Valley south of Alstonefield where Lode Lane & The Pinch meet the sun finds it difficult to penetrate and the frost lingers all day. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

Church of St. Andrew, Cubley, has 12th century fabric refashioned in the 13th century and later with restoration in 1872 and 1874. HWW & window to everyone. Enjoy the day.

A snowy scene in Derbyshire. Class 56 diesel 56312 is heading up a trainload of limestone as it slowly fills at the works at Peak Dale alongside the former Midland Railway main line from St Pancras to Manchester. Fences near & far. HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Inside the engine house which once housed a typical Cornish beam engine. Magpie Mine was the last working lead mine in the Derbyshire orefield and is one of the best surviving examples in the UK of a 19th century lead mine. HWW to everyone.

Is this Brown-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia triloba or is it Common Sneezeweed? - the leaves and petals from which were used to make snuff.

It may be the walled garden at National Trust's Calke Abbey but the bullrushes and other water plants are kept off the lawn by a fence! HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

The wooden staircase at Calke Abbey. The property and surrounding gardens & grounds are cared for by National Trust. HFF everyone and have a great weekend.

The Crescent at night. The Grade I listed Georgian crescent was built in 1780-89 facing the site of St Ann's Well, where warm spring water has flowed for thousands of years. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

A rainy day in Derbyshire & the Peak District.

The craggy peaks of Carboniferous Limestone near Earl Sterndale south of Buxton are associated with apron reef facies developed on the south-western flanks of the Derbyshire shelf in Dinantian times. The distant hills are made up of younger Namurian sandstones and shales. Very much younger is the barbed wire fence! HFF everyone. Have a great weekend.

The end of the Line! And what a line it used to be! The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, later MSLR/GCR/LNER/BR, Woodhead Route opened through Hadfield in 1845 and was a major trans-Pennine transport link for nearly 140 years. Approved by the LNER pre-war the line was finally electrified by BR at 1500 vDC in 1955. It was the most modern railway in Britain at the time but was unfortunately the only main line using 1.5 kVDC and this system was soon superseded by the later network standard of 25 kV AC. When the infrastructure needed upgrading the decision was made to close the line instead and all traffic between Hadfield and Penistone ceased in 1981. The Manchester commuter lines were eventually upgraded to 25 kV AC and trains still run to Hadfield & Glossop via Dinting Junction. Interestingly the original 70-year old overhead structures have been reused...

Singing and enjoying the sunshine in the walled garden at Calke Abbey.

Window dressing in the seed store. The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby.

The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby. The seed store by the walled gardens.

The National Trust house and gardens at Calke Abbey near Derby in the warm late afternoon light. Calke Abbey stands on the site of a medieval religious house dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. After passing through several hands, Richard Wendsley acquired Calke, eventually selling the estate in 1585 to Robert Bainbridge. His son sold the estate to Henry Harpur in 1622 for £5,350. It stayed in the Harpur family until the National Trust began caring for it in 1985. HFF everybody & have a great weekend.

Calke Abbey was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was acquired. HFF and have a peaceful weekend.

No prizes for guessing that this was taken in Chesterfield. The distinctive twisted spire on the Church of St Mary and All Saints was added in about 1362.