Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: White Peak

Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK Group. This is part of Dirtlow Rake lead vein 'openworks' where the vein has been excavated from the surface leaving a slot with walls of limestone on each side. In this particular location the vein splits into a complex of several branching and rejoining sub-parallel veins formed along a strike-slip duplex fault structure. Most of the movement along the faults was near-horizontal as evidenced by horizontal slickensides (groove marks) along the vein walls. This part of the vein has been worked since medieval times. In the floor of the opencut are numerous old shafts which accessed the deeper parts of the vein mostly from the 16th and 17th century onwards.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. View southwards from the summit of Thorpe Cloud on a rather misty day towards lower Dovedale, and showing the splendid medieval fields with ridge-and-furrow marks still visible.

Originally uploaded for the GWUK group. I was standing close to Burbage Edge and looking SSW over the Derwent valley, Stony Middleton and beyond to the Wye valley (furthest mist-filled valley) and near Monyash on the far skyline. The upward stony slope in the RH foreground is the southern flank of Carl Wark.

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. The River Lathkill in full flood, surging through the tufa dam at Lathkill Lodge, Lathkill Dale, in the White Peak, Derbyshire. Uprising, carbonate-rich groundwater flowing into the river bed in certain places causes deposition and accumulations of calcareous tufa (a harder and more extensive version of a furred-up kettle), blocking the stream and enabling plants to colonise the river bed. Normally the water flows very slowly here and is sometimes completely dry in the summer. At high flow times, the river surges through the tufa dam, finding its way through a network of shallow channels, as in the picture.

View SW to Meadow Place Grange from the south flank of Lathkill Dale near Over Haddon. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Looking upstream towards the weirs section near Over Haddon See where this picture was taken. [?]

River Lathkill near Over Haddon

Looking downstream in the reach between Over Haddon and Conksbury Bridge See where this picture was taken. [?]

Looking downstream from Conksbury Bridge. Best viewed large... See where this picture was taken. [?]

Looking downstream from Conksbury Bridge See where this picture was taken. [?]

One of the weirs on the River Lathkill, near Conksbury Bridge See where this picture was taken. [?]

The River Lathkill and one of the weirs on the reach near Over Haddon. Water appears to be flowing through fissures in the limestone river bed beneath the weir and emerging downstream as a zone of bubbling and upwelling, visible in the the centre of the photo. See where this picture was taken. [?]

View NW towards Melbourne Farm, near Over Haddon See where this picture was taken. [?]

The photograph is of 'open works' along the Dirtlow Rake mineral vein, between Pin Dale and Cavedale, near Castleton. The vertical slot is where lead miners have removed the vein, from medieval times onwards. Later workings took place underground and there are many old shafts along the length of the vein. The view is eastwards along the vein. The small 'bump' on the skyline is Win Hill. The village of Hope lies hidden beyond the green fields in the middle distance.

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group... The engine house at the pumping shaft, Mandale lead mine in Lathkill Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group: where is Jan and what is she doing? This is the Cavedale Lava, in the upper part of Cavedale, near Castleton, Derbyshire. Jan is measuring/demonstrating the angles of the hexagonal columnar jointing in the lava flow. See where this picture was taken. [?]