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These are the pictures from Hope Valley, which we visited 25th September until the 1st October. It was quite enjoyable, and we got a fair bit done. The views are lovely.
As the place goes, cannot recommend it enough.
On this day, we simply arrived, unpacked all our items, and went about the local church at Hope. We noticed that many of the graves had the same surnames as those on the current electorate roll - the graves date back into the early eighteenth century some of them - such an intimate connection with one's past must be incredible!
Also noticed, was that one of the graves has Jane Eyre on it - I wonder if somehow that is related to the book by Bronte of the same name?
On the second day, on the recommendation of a local we talked to at the pub where we stayed, we went up to Ladybower Reservoir. I believe we walked the whole way there. We went through a nice little trail, up to the dam, and came out by the sign for Heatherdene car park. Sitting a while for lunch, we carried on, and made it to the peak (if anyone knows the name of the peak in question, please let me know). Then we went home and ate dinner at the other pub across the road - I had a linguini (quite nice - I had the same dinner all week, started out not liking olives, by the end of the week really liked them) and we rested our feet for the night.
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This was our last day of the holiday. We had our breakfast at the usual place, then went to the church. We saw the sign had updated - the book fair was in the old school hall, and the times had changed, so we didn't have long. We went to the old school hall, perused the books - I got four, and some redcurrant jelly (in the lovely glass pots homemade jellies come in - it was delicious, of course). Then, we went on a small walk up a path by the bus stop, saw some really good-looking chickens (one was black with red spots - maybe a Black Star?) a couple of lovely horses, then had to turn back a different way as that was getting onto private land. We went a little while, then turned back as it was too wet and the path was slippy.
