HWW ~ Miller’s Dale, Meal Mill water wheel
Headstone tunnel
HFF ~ A day out on the hills
Gordale Scar waterfalls
The Monsal Head Viaduct
The River Wye and the Monsal Head Viaduct
HMCS Sackville
HBM - Halifax, water front seats
How-Zat
HWW ~ Breath Life Together
The River Wye and one of its Weir’s.
HFF ~ A frosty curve
Springtime again.
HBM ~ A bench of note
Fountains Abbey, N. Yorkshire
HWW ~ Fountains Mill
A Derbyshire landscape
HFF ~ Footbridge over the weir
Fountains Abbey: Entrance to the Knave
Temple of Piety
Studley Royal Water Gardens
HBM - A seat at the Abbey
Studley Royal Water Gardens ~ Seven bridges valley
HBM - Buxton Pavilion
The demolition of an Industrial chimney
A Mam Tor hike
HFF ~ Serpentine fence
Castle Stalker delight
HFF ~ The Palace Hotel, Buxton
Mam Tor summit and Trig point
HWW ~ Onwards to the Winnats Pass
The Great Ridge – Mam Tor
HBM - Don Redfern Memorial Bandstand, Buxton
Rushup Edge (Peak District)
A Derbyshire barn
HFF~ Follow the fence
HBM - St John’s Bandstand
Garden Bicycle
Rannock Moor, Scotland
HFF~ Portland Head Lighthouse view
Pen-y-ghent, Queen of the Dales
HWW ~ Overlooking Scammonden Water
Dream apples.
A Scammonden walk
Sutherland splendour
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Monsal Head panorama
We are looking down into the Monsal Dale valley in the Derbyshire Peak District onto the impressive Headstone Viaduct. In the valley bottom runs the very nice River Wye and to the right is the village of Cressbrook with Water-Cum-Jolly Dale just a little further.
Its-time for us to stride down the narrow path and steps to the wooden footbridge across the river near the buildings on our right before taking the opposite bank of the river, back under the viaduct, along the grassy bank past an impressive weir and second footbridge before traversing uphill back to here and a little further to our car. Phew!
The Grade II listed viaduct built in 1863 is 91m long, 21m high with five 15m span arches and was built by the Midland Railway. It is now home to the Monsal Trail for walking and bicycles. There is also quite an impressive tunnel just out of sight: the Headstone tunnel is 487m long through which the trail runs. ~ Another phone panorama!
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Its-time for us to stride down the narrow path and steps to the wooden footbridge across the river near the buildings on our right before taking the opposite bank of the river, back under the viaduct, along the grassy bank past an impressive weir and second footbridge before traversing uphill back to here and a little further to our car. Phew!
The Grade II listed viaduct built in 1863 is 91m long, 21m high with five 15m span arches and was built by the Midland Railway. It is now home to the Monsal Trail for walking and bicycles. There is also quite an impressive tunnel just out of sight: the Headstone tunnel is 487m long through which the trail runs. ~ Another phone panorama!
Best full screen.
Enjoy the day.
Nouchetdu38, tiabunna, Annemarie, Luis Miguel and 12 other people have particularly liked this photo
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Bonne et heureuse journée paisible.
Have a great day.
Gordon
Herb Riddle club has replied to TOZ clubBest Wishes. Herb
Wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,liebe Grüße Güni :))
Herb Riddle club has replied to Günter Klaus clubBest Wishes. Herbert
All it needs is the railway to be restored and a steam train to cross the viaduct!
Herb Riddle club has replied to Loose_Grip/Pete clubThere would be a lot of upset hikers and cyclist if that happened Pete. In 2021 the trail was attracting 300,000 visitors a year. When the Railway was first brought here and the viaduct built the painter John Ruskin hated it with a vengeance. He wrote at the time ""The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange - you Fools everywhere."
The railway line was one of those which were the subject of Dr Beeching's cuts in the 1950's. The long tunnels which cut through the rock at Monsal Head, Cressbrook and Litton were boarded up and closed for many years. It wasn't until 2011 that the tunnels were re-opened to the public and the Monsal Trail became a family friendly cycle way.
Cheers. Herb
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