After bringing in the New Year ... 2011 started with an easy walk along the Cromford Canal from Cromford Wharf to High Peak Junction and back.
It was still damp underfoot
It was also fairly quiet ...
Perhaps everybody was keeping their heads down ...
The buildings shown below are at High Peak Junction where Cromford Canal meets [or should I say met] the Cromford & High Peak Railway.
An interesting fact is that these outbuildings are "the oldest surviving railway workshops in the world" ~ that's what it says on the County Council information panel nearby.
Walking back the way we had come it was so dull I had to use flash to get a reasonable image.
The short walk featured above was followed on the 1st January 2011
Length of walk ~ 2.2 miles *
Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 2.2 miles
Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 1st January 2011 ~ 531.25 miles
1 of 2011
* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap
Perhaps everybody was keeping their heads down ...
The buildings shown below are at High Peak Junction where Cromford Canal meets [or should I say met] the Cromford & High Peak Railway.
An interesting fact is that these outbuildings are "the oldest surviving railway workshops in the world" ~ that's what it says on the County Council information panel nearby.
Walking back the way we had come it was so dull I had to use flash to get a reasonable image.
The short walk featured above was followed on the 1st January 2011
Length of walk ~ 2.2 miles *
Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 2.2 miles
Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 1st January 2011 ~ 531.25 miles
1 of 2011
* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap
I always like your canal walks, Charlie. Does the information panel state just how old those workshops are?
ReplyDeleteThe information panel didn't say but having done a little bit of research it seems that the Cromford & High Peak Railway opened in 1831 so it seems likely that the workshops date back to that time.
DeleteGood to see they are looking after the buildings,it looks as if it has been added on to.Ann
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to have a look round sometime. I think parts of it are open but I've never been in except the shop there.
DeleteI love the shot of the swans bums up. At least I hope they were swans. You are making me wish I had started to record my wanderings over the years. I measure in time outside while moving, not miles.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are swans Karyn. It's never to late to start recording ...
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