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AMBERGATE - BELPER GENERAL INFORMATION Duffield to WALK 4 These walks in the beautiful Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Explore Site have been designed to link together the stations along the DISTANCE 4.5 MILES scenic Derwent Valley Line. Choose one or more walks to create a 1 circular route or use the train to get back to the start. THE Ambergate

A walk through village, farmland and, The train service through the Derwent Valley provides a great after one short climb, excellent views opportunity to leave the car at home, relax and enjoy the great DERWENT from the valley ridge. views along the way. Trains on the Derwent Valley line operate a frequent service between Nottingham, Beeston, Attenborough, Long Eaton, Derby and the local Derwent Valley Line Stations. VALLEY Leave the station through the car park and down the entrance road. At the main road turn right. After However, if you do travel to the Derwent Valley by car, there are passing under a railway arch take the footpath on the car parks at each of the stations, from where you can start your right. Follow this eventually to the left of Thackers Villas circular or linear walk and travel back by train or on various bus A610 then turn right along the path to the rear of Old services. AMBERGATE Ridgeway School. Turn right up the road to find a STATION For train times call National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 49 50 or visit footpath on the left beyond the housing. A6 www.nationalrail.co.uk Ascend the path and, at the crest of the hill, admire Alternatively for local bus times call Traveline 0871 200 22 33 or visit www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buses the panoramic views with Heage Windmill (one of only 2 mills in Derbyshire with sails) to the front left All walks have been carefully waymarked by green discs as the path descends to a track. Turn right then bearing a coloured arrow, yellow indicates footpath immediate left to follow the road to Nether (meaning status to be used by walkers. Blue arrows indicate lower) Heage. bridleway status and can be enjoyed by walkers, cyclists BELPER and horseriders. All the discs bear the legend Derwent STATION Turn right to Malthouse Lane and again to Spanker Lane Valley Walks. to find a long straight farm track on the left. Walk to the left of the farm buildings and follow the path through The four walks in this leaflet are part of a collection of 12 walks several fields for nearly half a mile to pass a wood on the exploring the Derwent Valley. The other eight walks are detailed in left and then on into the housing estate in the distance. two more leaflets’ MILFORD

Turn left at the first road and soon right onto a footpath which leads eventually to steps on the right. HAPPY WALKING! Ascend these and continue on to the main road. Turn right then soon left down a path to Belper Cemetery. FOR MORE INFORMATION DUFFIELD Turn left at the entrance and cross fields to reach Middleton Top Visitor Centre, STATION Swinney Lane. Turn left here and the route to the Tel: (01629) 823204 This leaflet was produced by Derbyshire County Council for the station is easily followed through some of Old Belper River Derwent Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site by using the town map in the inset. 4 scenic station to station walks Duffield - Belper & Belper - Ambergate: Walks 1 to 4

Former Youth 1. Shining Cliff Woods Hostel Shining Cliff Wood is important both 1 historically and naturally. The area has been wooded for over a thousand years Netherpark (probably much longer) and is a Farm 7. The A6 to Cromford remnant of the Duffield Up until the nineteenth century, travel in Frith hunting forest. Ambergate this part of Derbyshire was not easy Station the Derwent Valley being heavily Old 7 Ridgeway wooded and very marshy. A direct Changes have taken Sandy Ford Belper - School road link was made in 1759 place in the wood Ambergate over the centuries between Cromford and Walk 3 Ambergate with new species Nottingham. 8 Miles - Belper being introduced, e.g. sweet Walk 4 The road between Cromford and chestnut and larch. 4.5 Miles Belper, along the river, only arrived in Shining Cliff, 1818 when a partnership of Arkwright, however, still provides an Strutt and Hurt (of Lea Mills) built a excellent example of an ancient public turnpike, the present A6. semi-natural woodland, with birch, holly and hazel prevalent. Part of the wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest Belper Town Centre

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2. Belper Blackbrook Excellent views over Belper can be seen from Belper North Lane. The northern part of the town is Station dominated by the Strutts' cotton mill. Jedediah Strutt was a business partner of Richard Arkwright and built his first mill here The Park Farnah in 1776. The North Mill which stands P 6 i 6. The Parks n Green c h overlooking the Derwent was built in 1804 by o m This large open space near the s Jedidiah's son, William Strutt and is a forerunner of H i centre of town is a remnant of ll the modern skyscraper - inside, a museum explanes the Belper Deer Park, part of the story. 2 Belper - the old Royal Forest Duffield Frith. One of Strutt's workers, Samuel Slater, learnt the cotton Duffield

N Bargate production process at Belper, before quietly emigrating to o Walk 2 r In the Middle Ages it was t America, disguised as a farm labourer, to revolutionise industry h 6 Miles

L owned by the Duchy of a there. n e Lancaster and featured a 3 Ben’s hunting lodge, and later, a There are other town trails around Belper available from the Farm Visitor Centre at Strutt’s North Mill. For further information manor house. Several phone (01773) 880474. English Kings visited the Duffield Frith to hunt deer. 3. North Lane Derbyshire is crossed by many ancient trackways, some dating back 5 several thousand years. North Lane is part of the Anglo-Saxon Holbrook Portway, an important track running roughly NW and SE across Derbyshire. This stretch was also used by the Romans to carry lead Golf Course from the Wirksworth area to Duffield and - even erlier - is believed to Duffield 5. Holbrook have been a Celtic ridge route. 4 - Belper Holbrook is a pretty village situated on the Walk 1 southern edge of one of Along the route, an unusual stone wall can be seen on the right. This is 4 Miles part of the firing range, a shooting butt built in the nineteenth century the most southerly parts for the local militia to use for target practice. of the Pennine Ridge. Its Duffield population grew quickly when 4. Duffield Castle Station framework knitting became Duffield Castle was built after the Norman Conquest by the de Ferrers family, important to the local Earls of Derby, who were granted ownership of Duffield Frith, an enormous economy, many people setting hunting forest. The family was however disgraced and all their land and up their own frames at home. property confiscated after the Barons’ Revolt against Henry III. Today, all that Eatonpark remains are the castle mound and the outline of the keep. Wood The main street is part of an ancient Portway.

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