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Photographs above (all photographs taken by me.)
Derbyshire Peak District
1. View from road
leading to Winnats Pass, Castleton
2. View of Mam Tor, near Castleton
3 and 4. Views from Edale-Hope road
See also my page which includes (in the second and third columns) material on cross country skiing. An extract from the page:
All the greatest joys I've experienced as a cross-country skier have come
from skiing in the hills near here [the place where I live in Sheffield], foothills of the Pennines, and the
hills over the county border in Derbyshire, in particular at Edale, the
start of the Pennine Way.
5. View through window
of my main workshop
6. Another view through the window
7. View from
upper window.
These views from windows are of scenes which would be
unremarkable in countries which have low temperatures and heavy snowfall in
winter. Here, scenes like this are very rare and well worth recording, I
think.
Other photographs
Above, Winnats Pass, Peak District
Above, the Blue John Cavern, Castleton. Blue John: a rare form of the mineral fluorite, mined only at the Blue John Cavern and the Treak Cliff Cavern, also in Castleton.
Above, bowl made of Blue John
Above, Derbyshire dry stone wall with stone containing Blue John
Above, minerals. Left, fluorite from Treak Cliff Cavern, Castleton. Centre, fluorite with barite, galena and iron from Treak Cliff Cavern. Right, from outside the Peak District - dolomite and calcite, from the Harding vein, Carrock mine, Cumbria.
For the minerals of the Midlands, 'Minerals of the English Midlands' by Roy E. Starkey is a superb guide.
Above the Keep of Peveril Castle, high above Castleton. The Keep was begun c. 1176.
Above, Hope Cement Works, the largest in the UK. Hope, Derbyshire, is near to Castleton. The Peak District Mountain Rescue team is based at the cement works. The raw materials needed for the plant's operation are available nearby.
