미들턴과 스메릴 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

Absolutely worth seeing highlight a little off the road

Small craggy tunnel, don't know how far this goes into the rock, I assume it's an exploration shaft from the Lead Mining industrial past.

The Memorial erected in Youlgreave to the memory of the crew of a Wellington Bomber (RAF No BJ 652) that crashed at Smerrill on 21 January 1944. The plaque was erected in August 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Listed on the plaque are the names and ages of the six RAAF crew who died: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) W. T. Barnes, Flt Sgt F. P. Deshon, Flt Sgt L. G. Edmonds, Flying Officer (FO) K. J. Perrett, Flt Sgt J. Kydd and Sergeant (Sgt) T. D. Murton. All men were posted to No 27 Operational Training Unit RAF. https://www.militaryimages.net/media/wellington-bomber-r-a-f-no-bj-652.74912/

Sheep Dip inscription In late May or June - The farmers brought their sheep - To wash their fleeces - In this deep pool - Burbling, bumbling, bleating - The waters bleat like a flock of sheep it dipped - Dip your ghosts into this hard, cold merky place - Hear their bleat in the water's rush to escape - The foam like wool pulsates - Damp leaves nothing behind but the trees' readiness

The most important prehistoric site of the East Midlands, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set amid high moorland. Within an earthen bank and ditch, a circle of some 50 white limestone slabs, all now fallen, surrounds a central stone ‘cove’ – a feature found only in major sacred sites. Nearby is enigmatic Gib Hill, a large burial mound.

Gib Hill is a large burial mound. It is thought to be a Neolithic oval barrow with an Early Bronze Age round barrow superimposed at one end. It is located some 300 metres south-west of Arbor Low henge.

A bit out of the way, but absolutely worth it!

This manor was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers; it included a mill and was worth sixteen shillings. The village grew during the Middle Ages. Middleton Castle, a fortified manor house, was built in the early seventeenth century, and saw some fighting during the English Civil War. Christopher Fulwood attempted to raise a Royalist force from his base in the Castle, but on 16 November 1643, Roundhead troops raided the house and killed him. The Castle now lies in ruins. The settlement's present appearance dates from the early nineteenth century. Thomas Bateman rebuilt most of the village in the 1820s, incorporating the mullioned windows of earlier buildings to retain something of its traditional appearance. Bateman rebuilt Middleton Hall as his own residence, and the small parish church dates from some fifty years later.