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2025年8月5日火曜日 10:00
☁️ 13 °C
海抜: 186 m
イングランド Derbyshire Dales 53.325046, -1.73948353°19’30” N 1°44’22” W
Bradwell; Well Dressing
8月5日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We drive to the village of Bradwell to see the well dressings that are there.

Well Dressing is an ancient custom that is peculiar to Derbyshire and the Peak District; they are highly decorative items created to place near wells or springs as a thanksgiving for the water It happens in this area because of the limestone here; the porous rock has eroded over the years and rainfall is quickly lost underground - thus access to this water via spings and wells became essential to the agricultural villages economies of the past. About 80 towns and villages in the area have Well Dressings from May to September each year. Colour is added to a design from natural sources, such as bark, flowers, and petals.

We see the Bradwell Well Dressings at Town End, Small Dale, Church End, and The Hills. They are all very beautiful.もっと詳しく
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2025年8月4日月曜日 14:00
🌧 19 °C
海抜: 107 m
イングランド Derbyshire Dales 53.213067, -1.67571353°12’47” N 1°40’33” W
Bakewell; Town
8月4日, イングランド ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Bad weather and rain all morning due to Storm Floris in Scotland and the North, so it's a late start; after lunch, we walk into Bakewell.

Bakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county and the only proper town within the boundaries of the Peak District (it's capital!)

We visit the market briefly and then go to the Old House Museum; this is a "folk" museum within a Grade II listed Tudor building that was originally built as a tithe house (a tax collector's dwelling) - it was later extended for other dwellings. The museum and exhibits cover the lives of former inhabitants; artefacts within date from the Tudor period onwards, and include ceramics, costumes, and toys. It is quirky and interesting.

We then visit the All Saints Church; this is noted for its two Saxon Crosses in its grounds (the Beeley Cross and the Bakewell Cross), as well as a selection of medieval / Anglo Saxon cross fragments and ancient stone coffins in the porch.

From there, we wander around the town before heading back to our accommodation (check photo captions for details).もっと詳しく
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2025年8月2日土曜日 12:45
☁️ 19 °C
海抜: 167 m
イングランド Bolsover 53.168801, -1.30870553°10’8” N 1°18’31” W
Hardwick Hall
8月2日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We're off to Bakewell in the Peak District National Park area of Derbyshire for a week; this is an area we have been to many times in the past.

En route, we stop off at Hardwick Hall, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire. This is closely associated with the lady that built it; Elizabeth Hardwick, later the Countess of Shrewsbury, and popularly known as Bess of Hardwick. Bess was born in 1527 on the site of "old" Hardwick Hall and rose to a position of great power in Elizabethan society (partly due to four marriages to increasingly rich suitors - Barley, Cavendish, St Loe, Talbot!); she died in 1608.

We visit Hardwick Old Hall first; it is now a towering roofless shell; built between 1587 and 1596 on a high rocky ridge,, it fell into disrepair after after the death of Bess"s husband, and she started preferring places like Chatsworth House and built the newer and grander Hardwick Hall. The old hall still has some lovely Elizabethan plaster friezes.

Next to the old hall is the newer Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan buildings in the UK, and built by Bess between 1590 and 1597. It is well known own for its rich furnishings, tapestries, and large windows, all of which have been preserved by Bess"s descendants, the Dukes of Cavendish, and now the National Trust.

It has been an excellent diversion en route to our rented house in Bakewell.もっと詳しく
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旅行者Mr D. You must let me know when you’re on my patch we could join you for a walk. We are often in Derbyshire and I have about 70 circular walks we have done there.
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Derbyshire; The Peak District

Bradwell; Well Dressing

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Hardwick Hall