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Damflask – a Lost Village Circular Walk Around Damflask Reservoir Bradfield Walks&Trails Suggested walk in the area Damflask – A Lost Village Circular walk around Damflask reservoir. This is a well-marked path, created by Yorkshire Water. 3.5 miles, allow 2 hours. Damflask village stood near here. A corn mill, paper mill, wire mill, a public house called the Barrel Inn Low Bradfield Mill Farm School Loxley Road Cliffe House and a cluster of houses existed in 1850. Bridge Peck Farm Fair Flats Mill Lee Hall Moor Road Farm Bottom Lane Hill Hill Top New Road But when the Dale Dyke dam burst at Dyson Holdworth Far House Lamb Hill Hall House Wood Roebuck house Holdworth midnight on 11th March 1864, the village was Matley Riverdale Bank almost entirely destroyed. Wood Trouble Wood Stony Lane Mill Lee Road Lee Mill Foxhole Dalroyd Cottages Lane Many people living here at the time owed Fox Holes New their lives to a young man called Stephenson Withamly Oaks Lane Wood Ben House Sailing Greave Fountain. He had been sent to Sheffield to Club Damflask fetch the waterworks engineer when the crack Woods Farm Lane Back River Ughill Height in the dam had been discovered. However, Woodhouse Oaks Damflask You Are Here B6077 Building Farm Reservoir his saddle girth had snapped and he stopped Low Holdworth Suggested in Damflask village to get it repaired. Whilst Walk Ughill Wood Side Wood Low Woodhouse Bus Stops Farm Farm Briers waiting, he said a crack had been found in House the dam wall and many villagers took heed Briers House Quarry workers Wood of the warning and moved their families and To Dungworth belongings to higher ground. One man did not heed the warning, however. Local Places of Interest Henry Burkinshaw, better known as ‘Sheffield on when the flood came and the house was Harry’, laughed when he was told that the The Loxley valley runs down from Dungworth village, above the Loxley valley, swept away. His body was found half a mile reservoir was going to burst. He said he did Damflask to Hillsborough. It was an is thought to date from the 13th century, away the next morning. For more information about Bradfield Walks & Trails not care, he would not get up out of bed important centre of water-powered but the meaning of the name remains for anything. A few minutes later, the flood The village was not rebuilt after the flood as industry in the 18th and early 19th obscure. There is a school, church and please visit: www.bradfield-walkers.org.uk village hall. The inn, The Royal Hotel, dates waters came pouring down the valley. Amid plans were already in place to build a reservoir. centuries but the Dale Dyke disaster from the 1860’s and is the venue for local, the shouting and screaming as others rushed Damflask reservoir today has a capacity of of 1864 destroyed many mills and they Please follow the Acknowledgements: traditional carol singing at Christmas. Produced for Bradfield Parish Council by to save themselves, Sheffield Harry began to 1,123 million gallons, with a maximum depth were never rebuilt. Countryside Code when CMP Consultancy and Rural Research. Dungworth is also the home of Our Cow get out of bed. But he had only put one sock of 88 feet. Nowadays it is used by rowing and The Robin Hood Inn at Little Matlock Molly ice-cream. visiting the area. Designed and made by Oakleaf Graphics Ltd. sailing clubs and also for fishing. Historical photographs supplied by and copyright of takes its name from the legend that ✔ Be safe - plan ahead and (Adapted from Samuel Harrison ‘A Complete History of the Ughill is an ancient settlement, 2 miles from Malcolm Nunn, Archivist, Bradfield Parish Council. Loxley was the birth place of Robin follow any signs. Great Flood at Sheffield 1864’) Low Bradfield. Although the Bradfield area Suggested walk and map of Damflask reservoir Hood and that he spent his boyhood was, and remains, primarily agricultural, ✔ Leave gates and property as courtesy of Yorkshire Water. in this area. In the 12th century Loxley other recorded industries include quarrying, you find them. Funded by East Peak Innovation Partnership LEADER Chase was an extensive hunting forest. stone masonry and fireclay (ganister) Programme and Peak District National Park Authority ✔ Protect plants and animals Sustainable Development Fund. mining. Small coal and ganister drift mines and take your litter home. Bradfield Parish Council works in partnership with Holdworth is a hamlet about halfway operated in Ughill until the 1970’s, although ✔ other local authorities, organisations and community between Loxley and Low Bradfield. few traces remain today. Keep dogs under close control. groups across Bradfield, Stannington, Worrall, Loxley, It is one of the few local places to be Oughtibridge and Wharncliffe Side to improve the ✔ Consider other people. mentioned in the Domesday Book. At Low Bradfield is clustered around the quality of life of everyone in the area. Low Holdworth on Loxley Road there is village green. During the summer cricket matches are a popular attraction. a public house, The Nags Head, and the Refreshments are available at the Plough Rhinegold Garden Centre and cafe. Construction of Damflask reservoir Inn and Postcard Cafe Supported by the Sustainable Development Fund.
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