- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Carole Perks, Chris Gilbert and Hilary Stephens (Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955175003
- ISBN-13: 978-0955175008
- Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 20.4 x 0.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,001,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Created by a Local Heritage Initiative community project, 'Behind The View' is a comprehensive account of the social industrial past of this isolated Derbyshire community. From the creation of the Litton Frith enclosure in 1764, through the development of the mill site by Richard Arkwright and successuve leading industrialist to decline and the village's inevitable reinvention. A fascinating insight in the words of the people who live in this special place.
Excerpted from Behind the View: Life & Times in Cressbrook - A Derbyshire Will Village by Chris Gilbert. Copyright © 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
‘..On rising the hill beyond it (in the road to Tideswell) a wall guards a precipice on the left, from whence is a most enchanting scene. The bottom is a narrow dale, called Monsall Dale, running between the mountains on your left hand, and, opposite to the place where you stand, winding round the corner of a projecting hill, and at length lost behind another, which seems to close the vale. It is watered by the lively little river Wye, which rising near Buxton, about 10 miles off, finds its way between the hills and runs through this dale, by Ashford, Bakewell, and Haddon hall, into the Derwent. The descent from this point of view is steep and abrupt; at the bottom stands a farm house, in a most picturesque situation, shaded by some trees, and just by is a rustic wooden bridge over the stream, resting on some rocks, and forming a communication with the opposite ground. The river runs round a small island; here it breaks over the rocks, there it steals softly along, and twisting in a thousand meanders, is at length lost behind the point of a hill...'
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