DerbyshireCastleton etc. Fri 9 - Sat 10 May 2014 |
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  The abandoned A625   The abandoned road is accessible as far as the former Odin mine  Mam Farm      Mam Farm  Parts of the path were very muddy |
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  A redundant stile in Mam Plantation  View towards Winats pass  Castleton and Hope cement factory  in rapidly changing light   Coffins used to be carried down the old road from Edale to the church in Castleton for burial from 1300-1634 when Edale got its own church  The road is known as the Corpse Raod this area was known as the Liggate, probably a corruption of Anglo -Saxon ‘lic’, or Old Norse ‘lyk’ meaning ' body' and the Scandanavian 'gate' meaning road or way. Or it could simply be from the Angls-Saxon ‘Hlidgeat’, for a swinging gate, often at the edge of cultivated lands.  Hope cement factory from Hollowford Rd |
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