Frank suggested that I do accounts of my walks out locally as he enjoyed the Tegg' Nose account from my walk on Tuesday. This one of today's walk was about 30 minutes drive and not in my home county of Cheshire but the next county Derbyshire.
Edale ( pronounced E ...dale ) is a village in Derbyshire, England. The backbone of England is The Pennine mountain range and it starts at Edale ! Historically it has various spellings including Aidele, Heydale (1251), Eydale (1275), Eydal (1285) and Edall (1550).
It is beautifully unspoilt and a place of calm, beauty and clear air. We did lots of walking and had a pub lunch in a pub dating back to 1577. It has afternoon tea shops too ! Sounds good to me !
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Thank you for your comment below Sep. 2, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day question.
English Wikipedia describes Irish breakfast tea as a red-colored black tea, likelier Assam than Ceylon.
It likewise designates that tea as so strong as to encourage sweeteners such as honey or sugar.
Might you opt for honey or sugar or nothing with your tea?
Maggie Smith's description in that film is so funny and my family reckon it's based on me.
I order Irish tea when I have a choice or English breakfast.
I don't know any other Lych gate superstitions other than that mentioned.
Veronica, Do Old English superstitions say anything about a single or widowed person going through Lych-gates? What kind of coffee and tea do you tend to order? Have you seen the Exotic Marigold Hotel films, where Maggie Smith explains the English way of preparing and pouring tea?
P.S. Me too, I love the Celtic cross.
The north of England has so much to offer but yet is underused by tourists
Lovely photos! Makes me want to visit.
Mari,
I sent the " Heather Covered Vale" photo into BBC Breakfast this morning as they were asking for lovely countryside photos. I hope they show it .
Derbyshire wasn't accessible to the Lancashire poor until the Victorian times with the coming of the railways.
The air at Edale is so clean I could almost taste it as I waked along. I would think the gate posts have been changed over the years but I would estimate 16th C for the oldest bits.
The walls and gates may have been renewed over centuries, but ofttimes they follow more ancient routes. The stone gate posts that Veronica shows have little lichen, which can be a sign of their having been there not long, but lichens die in polluted air, so the lichen that accumulates on ancient stones [in this case from the air of industrial Manchester] may not truly show than the age of the gate. The pathways in ancient upland landscapes may have been trodden for millenia, as people have dwelt there for so long.
Your picture shows strange old gates. We do not know how old gates like this are, but we do know that in parts of Derbyshire there are stretches of wall that go back to the neolithic period, only a few, and there are some that, though not as old, are very ancient. I got this information from the book Royston Grange: 6000 years of a peakland landscape. If the walls are old, the paths and gates are likely to be old also.
The Peak District, to which Edale belongs, which is not far from where Veronica lives, was a location very beneficial to the working people of industrial South Lancashire, for it was a place where they could walk to escape urban and industrial squalor. It is Britain's first national park. The peat bogs above Edale hold rain water that would otherwise run off and periodically flood Greater Manchester. The water is gently released to the reservoirs.
If you look at the yellow pathway central to the heather covered vale photo , ... I was walking along that very path yesterday. I feel very fortunate, indeed.