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Impressive lake on the Chatsworth estate, was very slippy and muddy so take your time

Thought to be a Bronze Age stone circle consisting of 10 stones in a ring with a further stone buried to the north-west.

camp site with a table

Lovely walk around chatsworth

Beeley Brook is a stream in the Derbyshire Peak District that flows through Hell Bank Plantation and the village of Beeley, eventually joining the River Derwent, and features several waterfalls and cascades.

Water from the Ring Pond flows over the Sowter Stone and down to the Aqueduct, which was constructed by Paxton in the late 1830’s and early 1840’s as part of his improvements to Stand Wood. The water continues down through Stand Wood and enters the garden above the Cascade Pond.

The 6th Duke tasked Paxton with engineering a new record-breaking gravity-fed fountain in anticipation of a visit by Tsar Nicholas 1 in 1844.  The 8-acre Emperor lake was fed by streams that collected rain falling on the high ground. The pipe from the Emperor lake drops 122 metres down to the fountain. In places, trenches up to 4.5 metres deep were cut through rock to maintain the gradient, and all before mechanical diggers were invented. The resulting water pressure was enough to enable the fountain to reach heights of 90 metres and for 160 years, the Emperor Fountain was the tallest gravity-fed fountain in the world. 

Emperor Lake at Chatsworth, built by Joseph Paxton, is an 8-acre lake that feeds the Emperor Fountain, once the tallest gravity-fed fountain in the world, and powers a turbine providing electricity to Chatsworth House.