Description of Buxton, Chatsworth, and Castleton; With a Tabular View of the Principal Drives and Objects of Interest Throughout the County Abridged from Adam's Gem of the Peak.
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Description of Buxton, Chatsworth, and Castleton; With a Tabular View of the Principal Drives and Objects of Interest Throughout the County Abridged from Adam's Gem of the Peak.

Description of Buxton, Chatsworth, and Castleton; With a Tabular View of the Principal Drives and Objects of Interest Throughout the County Abridged from Adam's Gem of the Peak.


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. CASTLETON. DRIVE TO CASTLETON, EBBING AND FLOWING WELL, ELDON HOLE, CASTLETON?OBSERVATIONS ON ITS PECULIAR POSITION AND 1M- PKESSIVE SCENERY, HISTORY OF THE CASTLE, PEAK CAVERN, SPEEDWELL LEVEL, WINNATS, TRE-CLIFF, BLUE JOHN MINE, HAM Toll, CAVE DALE, ETC. DRIVE TO CASTLETON. The road to Castleton is decidedly one of the most dreary in the Peak of Derbyshire, and more like what the Peak originally was than any other part. A few white cottages sprinkled here and there in the valleys or on the side of the steep barren hills, with the rude inhospitable looking village of Sparrow Pit, is almost all that occurs to relieve the dreary monotony, till we arrive at the foot of Mam Tor, where the lovely Vale of Hope bursts upon the view in its beauty and loveliness. But who would not take it after all for a change? And besides, the interest thrown around the Ebbing and Flowing Well on the way, and the wonders of the Peak at Castleton, amply make up for any deficiency in the scenery. We shall therefore hasten over it, as the traveller generally wishes to do, simply observing that he takes through Fairfield, where the left hand road is to be taken; then, on arriving at the toll-bar (five miles from Buxton) at Barmoor Clough, (where we get into the Chapel road, ) turn to the right, and on proceeding about a quarter of a mile, we find the EBBING AND FLOWING WELL. This extraordinary Well (one of the wounders of the Peak) appears to be used as a watering-place for cattle, and is a small pool. The side next the hill forms the segment of acircle, defended by a wall, beneath which there are nine apertures, about equidistant one from another, oat of which the water flows when it is in action. These openings are protected from the cattle by stone ledges, flowing over which...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217825580
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0217825583
  • Publisher Date: 08 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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