Brook Bottom and Waterloo

Turning left out of Church Lane, Mellor, I drive the short distance to 11 Moor End where the family of Elizabeth Bradbury, the wife of Samuel Ernill, my maternal great grandfather, lived in the mid-19th century.
Continuing through the village of New Mills and a narrow country lane, I reached the hamlet of Brook Bottom where the Ernills lived in the 18th and 19th century. They lived at Cottage No.2, but all the cottages had names, not numbers, now, and a local resident told me that some of the old cottages may have been knocked together to making the modern cottages.
I had a good lunch at The Fox, a listed pub, which Robinson's, the brewery, had purchased in the late 19th century together with a few adjacent cottages but probably not the one occupied by the Ernills. The staff were putting up their Halloween decorations.
I left the pub at 16.40 and continued through New Mills to find the A6 and then other A roads across the Derbyshire Dales, through Baslow and Chesterfield, to meet the M1 at the Mansfield junction. The motorway was very busy even in the early evening but gradually quietened as it approached London. After stopping at the last services for petrol and a drink, turning off too early so had to go down the A1 through Highgate and down the Caledonian Road, I eventually got home to Waterloo at 21.30.
Mileage for the whole day: 338.
Mileage for the whole trip: 960.Leia mais