Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire:: made chiefly for the purpose of picturesque observationauthor and published, 1899 |
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... called Froggat Edge ; beyond , in distance , appeared the woods and hills that form the boundaries of Chatsworth Park . The opposite side of the Derwent from Leam downwards was scarcely less beautiful : the hills are lofty and extremely ...
... called Froggat Edge ; beyond , in distance , appeared the woods and hills that form the boundaries of Chatsworth Park . The opposite side of the Derwent from Leam downwards was scarcely less beautiful : the hills are lofty and extremely ...
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... called Camp Green . It is a circular area of about fifty yards diameter , encompassed with a high mound of earth , round which a ditch , or moat , appears to have been carried . In some places the ditch is nearly filled up , and the ...
... called Camp Green . It is a circular area of about fifty yards diameter , encompassed with a high mound of earth , round which a ditch , or moat , appears to have been carried . In some places the ditch is nearly filled up , and the ...
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... called Long Cliff , between which and the castle there is a com- munication , though now a very dangerous one , across the narrow ridge of rock that overtops the entrance into Peak's Hole . This well is built of the same kind of stone ...
... called Long Cliff , between which and the castle there is a com- munication , though now a very dangerous one , across the narrow ridge of rock that overtops the entrance into Peak's Hole . This well is built of the same kind of stone ...
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... called Perry Foot , nearly three miles from Castleton , on the road to Chapel - en - le - frith , and after running through Peak's Hole , re - issues into day at the entrance into this sublime orifice . Formerly an assumed ignorance ...
... called Perry Foot , nearly three miles from Castleton , on the road to Chapel - en - le - frith , and after running through Peak's Hole , re - issues into day at the entrance into this sublime orifice . Formerly an assumed ignorance ...
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... called the CAVE , into which we were admitted through a rocky portal , about six feet wide . This deep ravine is closely hemmed in with rock on every side , and , with one solitary exception , neither shrub nor tree is to be seen within ...
... called the CAVE , into which we were admitted through a rocky portal , about six feet wide . This deep ravine is closely hemmed in with rock on every side , and , with one solitary exception , neither shrub nor tree is to be seen within ...
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adorned amongst appears Ashbourne Ashover banks beautiful beheld Belper Bolsover Bolsover castle branches Bridge castle Castleton cavern Chapel-en-le-Frith character Chatsworth Chesterfield church colouring copies Crich dark deep delightful Derby Derbyshire Derwent distance ditto Duke Earl eminence entrance Etherow excursion feeling foliage Glossop ground Hall Hardwick Hathersage hills honour Ilam Ilam Hall John landscape light lofty London magnificent Mam Tor manor mansion mass Matlock Bath Matlock Dale meadows Memoir of Chantrey miles mineral monument Moor mountains nearly noble Norton object observed occupied passed Peak of Derbyshire Peak's Hole Peveril picture picturesque pleasing present residence river river Dove road rocks rocky romantic scene scenery Sculptor shadow Sheffield side situated South Winfield Stanton Stanton Moor steep stone stream summit Thorpe Cloud tion tower trees vale valley Via Gellia vicinity village visited walk whole wild William Peveril Winnats Wirksworth woods
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