by alastair | Sep 17, 2016 | News, Peak District
You can probably get no bigger cliche at the start of Autumn than to have mist and the silver birches of Bolehill Quarry, just below Surprise View, in the same shot. That is what some may think, those that think they are above such simple pleasures as spending time...
by alastair | Aug 31, 2016 | News, Peak District
At the weekend we (family and friends Tim and Charlotte and Anna) paid a visit to Stanton Moor in the Peak District, a small Mecca of neolithic burial mounds and stone circles. But we didn’t go for the history, we went there for the heather and the colour. ...
by alastair | Jun 23, 2016 | News, Peak District
I went for a walk last week from Ashford in the Water in the Wye Valley over to Monsal Head and back round to Ashford in the Water via Monsal Dale last week. As ever the Peak District weather was never quite settled as to whether it was going to rain or not. In the...
by alastair | May 16, 2016 | News, Peak District
Field Notes On open moorland above the Wyming Brook within the city limits of Sheffield, I found this rock. I had heard of these before, but never came across one myself. These carved rocks are small reservoirs for game birds like grouse to drink from. Across the...
by alastair | May 16, 2016 | News, Peak District
Waterfall Swallet (or Swallett) is a small and easy to miss to waterfall hidden the the Peak District between the famous plague village of Eyam and Foolow. This was a 14 minute exposure using a Zero Image 2000 pinhole...
by alastair | Apr 16, 2016 | News, Peak District
Lawrence Field in the Peak District lies in the space between the Surprise View Car Park and Padley Gorge. It’s an unremarkable piece of moorland, save for the fact that there are iron age hut circles on the Padley Gorge side of the area and somewhere there is...
