Lathkill Dale

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. This is the River Lathkill near the village of Over Haddon, Derbyshire, England. The mini-cascades are an artificial device to create pools for trout fishing. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group... The engine house at the pumping shaft, Mandale lead mine in Lathkill Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Looking downstream from Conksbury Bridge. Best viewed large... See where this picture was taken. [?]

Looking upstream towards the weirs section near Over Haddon See where this picture was taken. [?]

One of the weirs on the River Lathkill, near Conksbury Bridge See where this picture was taken. [?]

The River Lathkill and one of the weirs on the reach near Over Haddon. Water appears to be flowing through fissures in the limestone river bed beneath the weir and emerging downstream as a zone of bubbling and upwelling, visible in the the centre of the photo. See where this picture was taken. [?]

View SW to Meadow Place Grange from the south flank of Lathkill Dale near Over Haddon. See where this picture was taken. [?]

View NW towards Melbourne Farm, near Over Haddon See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. The River Lathkill in full flood, surging through the tufa dam at Lathkill Lodge, Lathkill Dale, in the White Peak, Derbyshire. Uprising, carbonate-rich groundwater flowing into the river bed in certain places causes deposition and accumulations of calcareous tufa (a harder and more extensive version of a furred-up kettle), blocking the stream and enabling plants to colonise the river bed. Normally the water flows very slowly here and is sometimes completely dry in the summer. At high flow times, the river surges through the tufa dam, finding its way through a network of shallow channels, as in the picture.