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CROMFORD - WHATSTANDWELL GENERAL INFORMATION Ambergate These walks in the beautiful Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Explore WALK 8 Site have been designed to link together the stations along the DISTANCE 4 MILES scenic Derwent Valley Line. Choose one or more walks to create a 2 circular route or use the train to get back to the start. THE to Cromford

A walk combining steep climbs through The train service through the Derwent Valley provides a great woodland and the level towpath of the opportunity to leave the car at home, relax and enjoy the great DERWENT views along the way. Trains on the Derwent Valley line operate a Cromford Canal. The views of the frequent service between Nottingham, Beeston, Attenborough, Derwent Valley are spectacular. Long Eaton, Derby and the local Derwent Valley Line Stations. VALLEY

However, if you do travel to the Derwent Valley by car, there are car parks at each of the stations, from where you can start your Leave the station, turn left along the road, under the bridge River Derwent to a footpath on the left. This climb leads past old lead circular or linear walk and travel back by train or on various bus services. workings on the right to find a stone step over a stile in a CROMFORD STATION wall alongside a farm track. Carry on uphill over a stile into For train times call National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 49 50 or visit the wood and follow the well walked path to meet www.nationalrail.co.uk Hearthstone Lane. Turn left here for 75 yards then right to Alternatively for local bus times call Traveline 0871 200 22 33 or take a footpath across open fields which soon begins the visit www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buses long descent to Nether Doe Carr Wood below. All walks have been carefully waymarked by green discs bearing a coloured arrow, yellow indicates footpath Cromford Canal Enter the wood and carry on to the Littlemoor Brook, status to be used by walkers. Blue arrows indicate bridleway status and can be enjoyed by walkers, cyclists which is crossed by stepping stones, continue uphill and and horseriders. All the discs bear the legend Derwent cross the road, into a small field to emerge at a Valley Walks. crossroads. Cross over and bear right onto Long Lane, past the Rhododendron Gardens to eventually find a The four walks in this leaflet are part of a collection of 12 walks WHATSTANDWELL bridlepath on the right. Descend into Holloway and exploring the Derwent Valley. The other eight walks are detailed in STATION then Bracken Lane to find a footpath, just past a two more leaflets’ cottage, on the right. This leads across open parkland and down, over Gregory Tunnel, to the Cromford Canal. HAPPY WALKING!

Turn left to the towpath, keep the canal to the left and FOR MORE INFORMATION progress to Whatstandwell. At the third bridge (one metal, Middleton Top Visitor Centre, A610 two stone), pass under the road and at the next bridge turn Tel: (01629) 823204 AMBERGATE right to cross over the railway bridge to the station. This leaflet was produced by Derbyshire County Council for the STATION Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site

4 scenic station to station walks Ambergate - Whatstandwell & Whatstandwell - Cromford: Walks 5 To 8

1. Lea Green 10. Florence Nightingale Lea Green, dating back to the fifteenth century, was once a The Nightingales were an old established family in this part of Derbyshire. They farmhouse which has been added to and extended by subsequent built the woollen mill at Lea Bridge in the late eighteenth century. This was later owners. Under John Marsden-Smedley it achieved the grand house taken over by the Smedley family to consolidate their business, which is now status that can be seen today. After his death in 1960, the buildings world famous. and grounds were taken over by the County Council to become a sports and environmental centre. The most famous member of the Nightingale family is Florence, who became a nurse and tended the wounded and dying on the battlefields of the Crimean War. Her house Lea Hurst can be seen in the distance on this walk. Cromford Lea Station 1 9. Cromford Canal Weaving up the Derwent Valley for five and a half miles of its length the Cromford Canal passes through stunning countryside. Sponsored by local 2 businessmen, including Richard Arkwright, the canal was engineered by William Jessop, whose son Josias went on to engineer, amongst other Whatstandwell Cromford - projects, the Cromford and High Peak Railway, now the High Peak Trail. - Cromford Whatstandwell Walk 7 Walk 8 Opened in 1794, the canal was effectively cut in two by the collapse of 4 Miles 4 Miles the Butterley Tunnel near Ripley circa 1900. The top section of the Holloway waterway to Cromford remained navigable into the 1940s. In 1974 Derbyshire County Council purchased five miles of the canal from High P eak Trail Cromford to Ambergate, for a dual recreation and conservation purpose. 3 2. Cromford 10 8. Crich The inhabitants of Crich, like those in many of the limestone upland Historically, Cromford villages, made a living out of taking stone from the ground. Lead ore, is a very important village. or galena, was the initial extract, to be followed, to the present day, It can be classed as a by limestone quarrying. Grit or millstone, was also quarried birthplace of the Industrial locally. Revolution. Arkwright's first cotton mill is still standing and is open to the public. It is well worth a visit to find out 4 Crich Stand, a memorial to the dead of the Sherwood more about where it all began! Forester Regiment, stands at the top of the quarry first Longway Bank started by George Stephenson. The National Tramway Museum is located in part of the old quarry. 3. Intake Lane 9 Many of the villages locally have an Intake Lane. These The television series, Peak Practice, has made the were the roads leading to common land, especially the village nationally famous as Cardale, the settlement moors. After the Enclosures Acts of the late eighteenth and where the doctors' surgery was located. early nineteenth centuries much of this land was taken into private ownership. These lanes then led to the “Intake”, Westgate Farm hence the name. Benthill 8 Crich Farm

4. Lead Mining Whatstandwell Lead has been mined from this area probably since pre-Roman times. Station Whatstandwell At the height of the lead boom, mines were driven deeper and so had - Ambergate to be drained. This was done by tunnels called soughs. These

Walk 6 s r honeycomb the locality. One of the largest, the Meerbrook Sough, lies o T Home 3.5 Miles e deep underground here. The water supplies the towns of Heanor and Farm h T Ilkeston several miles away. 5 Ambergate - Whatstandwell 5. Alderwasley Hall Walk 5 Alderwasley Hall and Park were owned by the Hurt family. The family fortune 4.5 Miles was built upon iron foundaries supplied by local ironstone and fuelled by Crich Chase timber and charcoal from local woods. Families of charcoal burners lived in C r the adjacent woodlands. One family inhabited an ancient yew tree now known o 6 m f as the Betty Kenny tree within Shining Cliff Woods. Here several children were o r d raised and one branch was hollowed out to accommodate the latest born. C Former a n Youth a This could be the origin of the nursery rhyme “Rock a bye baby, in the tree l 7 top…” Hostel

6. Midshires Way These walks on the west of the valley follow the Midshires Way for several miles. This 225 mile route is a long distance regional path linking the Ridgeway at Aylesbury with the Trans Pennine Trail at Stockport.

7. Crich Chase Ambergate Station Like neighbouring Shining Cliff, Crich Chase was once a hunting park, but not part of Duffield Frith. The Crich Shining Cliff Woodlands were the domain of the Zouch family from Codnor Castle, several miles to the east. Woods

The Chase supports a varied wildlife with the wood consisting of mainly birch, oak, hazel and from more recent times, a large amount of sycamore.

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