Hartington

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Hartington is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, lying on the River Dove. According to the 2001 census the parish of Hartington Town Quarter, which also includes Pilsbury had a population of 345. Formerly known for the mining of ironstone, limestone and lead, the village is now known for cheese-making (Hartington Blue Stilton) and tourism. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1485x1101, 303 KB) Summary User talk:Kanthoney Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1485x1101, 303 KB) Summary User talk:Kanthoney Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Hartington is a city located in Cedar County, Nebraska. ... A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, and boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, mainly spanning Derbyshire, but also covering bits of Cheshire, Staffordshire and South and West Yorkshire. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... The River Dove, Derbyshire is the principal river of the south-western Peak District, in the English Midlands. ... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... Black-band ironstone, 2. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish white Atomic mass 207. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, buffalo or other mammals. ... Stilton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, south of the city of Peterborough. ...

Architecture

Notable buildings in the village include: the market hall (formerly the site of a market); the 13th century parish church of Saint Giles; and 17th century Hartington Hall. A prominent house in the centre of the village, featured in the above photo, is Bank House, built by the former village mill owner and in the past used as the village bank. A half-mile to the south of the village, on the Dove, is the fishing house of the famous angler Charles Cotton. In the north of the village is Pilbury Castle, an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle, that survives only as an earthwork. A market is, as defined in economics, a social arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to discover information and carry out a voluntary exchange. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ... the Fourteen Holy Helpers Saint Giles (Latin Ægidius) was a 7th-8th century Christian hermit saint. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Charles Cotton (April 28, 1630 - February, 1687) was an English poet, best-known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...

Near Hartington is the finest neolithic stone circle in the Peak District, Arbor Low. There are numerous ancient tumuli and cairns in the landscape around Hartington, probably dating from the Bronze Age. An array of Neolithic artefacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Scotland, Europes most complete Neolithic village. ... Swinside stone circle, in the Lake District, England. ... The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, mainly spanning Derbyshire, but also covering bits of Cheshire, Staffordshire and South and West Yorkshire. ... Arbor Low is a late Neolithic henge monument, lying in the Derbyshire Peak District approximately three miles west of Youlgreave. ... Alternate meanings of barrow: see Barrow-in-Furness for the town of Barrow in Cumbria, England; also Barrow, Alaska in the U.S.; also River Barrow in Ireland. ... Cairns is a regional city located in far north Queensland, Australia. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...

Attractions

The village has a youth hostel at Hartington Hall, which serves two major National Cycle Network routes; the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail. These trails pass just under one mile to the east of the village, and offer 30 miles of off-road cycling along old railway gradients through the Peak District National Park. YHA logo. ... The first section of the NCN to be built was the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, opened in 1984. ... The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) completed in 1831, to carry minerals and goods between the Cromford Canal at Cromford Wharf and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge. ... The Cromford and High Peak Railway was a railway built in the 1830s and operated by the London and North Western Railway to carry minerals and goods between the Cromford Canal at Cromford Wharf and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge. ... A mile is any of a number of units of distance, each in the magnitude of 1–10 km. ... The Peak District National Park is a national park in the north of England. ...

A little south of the village, overlooking the Dove, stands Wolfscote Hill (388m at Grid reference SK137583), a good viewpoint, now in the care of the National Trust. Hartington is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, lying on the River Dove. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre (in the U.S., chiefly meter) is a measure of length, approximately equal to 3. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ...

History

The parish was originally quite large, and part of the hundred of Wirksworth. Hartington had four townships, known as the Town Quarter, Nether Quarter, and Middle Quarter, and Upper Quarter, which are now all separate parishes. These became separate civil parishes in their own right, according to visionofbritain.org.uk, in 1866. They are marked on Ordnance Survey maps. The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. ... Hartington Nether Quarter is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, that resulted from the subdivision of the old Hartington parish. ... Hartington Upper Quarter is a civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, originating from the division of the ancient parish of Hartington into four. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ...

External links

• Francis Frith's photographs of Hartington in the 1950s.
• Cheese Making in the Peak & Hartington Cheese.
• Hartington Hall Youth Hostel