Day 4 - Wednesday 17th April
Breakfast was 'scombled' eggs, toast and chorizo, before being tasked to the local farm shop for pies. Thorncliffe Farm is about 8 miles away, selling frshly butchered meat, dairy, fruit/veg, groceries,plants, gifts and pastries. Their sausage rolls took my eye, along with the cakes, but I didn't buy any! We picked up 2 steak and onion pies, along with some chips and gravy. Wendy bought a book!
Gill has a work colleage who is her IT support so she asked him if he had a power cord for my laptop. Unfortunately not, so Gill went onto amazon, and they could deliver one the following day.
Gill had some other work to do with her IT man, and when she finished about 11, we all headed off towards Hope and Castleton, passing through Sheffield and along Rivenden Valley. We stopped at Lady Bower Reserve where 2 small villages were flooded for the dam. The river has several arms that feed into it, and one was the Derwent reservoir which was used for training the dropping of the 'bouncing bomb' used to rupture the dam walls critical to the German war effort. This was the actual dam used for training, and for the movie, ' The Dam Busters'.
Onto Hope...we parked the car at Hope station, and set off on foot, utilising the public pathways to Castleton. It was a great walk - just what we needed - as it crossed many farm properties and meandered along a creek. We crossed many dry stone walls, wither through gates, or up and over stlyles built into the walls.
Exiting the fields via a local lane, we popped out in the township, where lunches in the George Hotel had our name on them. We sat out in the sun, and took in our surroundings. After lunch, Dave and I headed up the hill to the Peverill Castle, while the girls went shopping. We agreed to meet up at the Rose Garden cafe for afternoon tea in the back garden.
We then headed back to Lady Bower Reservoir, and up the Derwent River to the dam wall before heading home for pie, chips and gravy.
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| Peverill Castle |
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| Derwent River Dam |
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| The Dam Busters team and story |
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