After meeting at Ambergate Station and taking the train to Matlock, VBR walked down the Derwent Valley Heritage Way back to Ambergate. Here are some photographs.
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| Ambergate Station. At the top left hand, note the white concrete walls of the almost-complete Amberate Reservoir, Severn Trent's largest covered reservoir, holding 128 million litres of drinking water destined for Nottingham. These videos, February 2015 and July 2015 are worth looking at. |
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| Matlock Bridge |
Starting at Matlock Bridge, we walked through the park and after a 100m climb reached High Tor.
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| Distant view of Ribor Castle |
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| Looking down onto the A6 from High Tor |
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| Matlock from High Tor |
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| Giddy Edge - one way down but not for most of us today |
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| Heights of Abraham cable cars |
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| Matlock Bath (before the bikers arrive) |
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| Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mill, 1783 |
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| St Mary's Church, Cromford. Originally planned as a chapel for Willersley Castle by Sir Richard Arkwright |
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| Cromford Wharf at the northern terminus of the Cromford Canal |
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| High Peak Junction - the end of the High Peak Trail |
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| Swing bridge at High Peak Junction |
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| Leawood Pump House (1849 - 1944) built to supply water to the Cromford Canal, |
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| Cromford Canal viaduct above the River Derwent |
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| Distant view of Crich Stand and quarry |
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| Eden House railway tunnel under house next to Cromford Canal |
