Tag: Dovedale

We’ve just come back from Dovedale.

Dovedale?  Yes, it’s in the Peak District, a glorious area of England, part of its Pennine spine.  There are old stone-built towns and villages with long histories of hard work in mining, textiles and farming.  There are limestone and millstone grit uplands and escarpments, with distant forest and moorland views, and valleys and gorges cut deep into the limestone.  There are ancient stone circles and enchanting landscapes.  Forget modern life, put on your walking boots and explore.

We had four wonderful days, which for once, we didn’t have to organise.  Here’s why.

Autumn was begining to show its colours, but summer temperatures remained.  We walked.  I didn’t have a camera (Barcelona…..).  I had a new mobile phone though.  It isn’t the same, but I played with some of its gizmos.  Here are my postcards from Dovedale.

Thorpe Cloud. It’s a tough triangular hill, formed of marine skeletons which haven’t easily eroded.

The Nine Ladies, a Bronze Age standing circle.

This fly agaric was an early victim of special effects on my phone.

Views from the heather moorland near the Nine Ladies. We’re by a Bronze Age cairn

Special FX again….

These drystone wall edged fields are reminiscent of the Yorkshire Dales.

The stepping stones across the river in Dovedale…..

… the needle-like crags…..

… the caves…

..the autumn colours near the riverside.

Autumn colour again

And a deliberately impressionistic take on the trees reflected in the water.

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