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71 relations: A6 road (England), Adhesion railway, Ashbourne line, Bakewell, Beeching cuts, Benjamin Outram, Black Rocks (Derbyshire), Bouldering, Butterley Company, Buxton, Cable railway, Cotton, Cromford, Cromford Canal, Cycling, Derbyshire, East Midlands, Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, Edale, Equestrianism, Friden, Derbyshire, George Stephenson, Grade (slope), Grindleford, Gritstone, High Peak Junction, Hope, Derbyshire, Hopton Incline, Hopton, Derbyshire, Horse mill, Hurdlow railway station, Josias Jessop, Leeds, Limestone, London, London and North Western Railway, Longcliffe, Manchester, Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway, Matlock, Derbyshire, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Midland Railway, Mineral, Minimum railway curve radius, National Cycle Network, Newbury, Berkshire, North Staffordshire Railway, Parsley Hay railway station, Peak District, Peak Forest Canal, ..., Pennine Bridleway, Rail profile, River Goyt, Robert Stephenson and Company, Settle–Carlisle line, Stationary steam engine, Steeple Grange Light Railway, Stockport, Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Tansley, Textile, The Railway Magazine, Tissington Trail, Tramway (industrial), Trent and Mersey Canal, Usk, Walking, Whaley Bridge, William Jessop, Wirksworth. Expand index (21 more) »
A6 road (England)
The A6 is one of the main historic north–south roads in England.
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Adhesion railway
An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train.
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Ashbourne line
The Ashbourne line was a railway from Buxton via Ashbourne to Uttoxeter.
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Bakewell
Bakewell is a small market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, well known for the local confection Bakewell pudding.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Benjamin Outram
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.
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Black Rocks (Derbyshire)
The Black Rocks is a small outcrop of natural gritstone, between Cromford and Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Peak District, England.
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Bouldering
Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls, known as boulders, without the use of ropes or harnesses.
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Butterley Company
The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790.
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Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.
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Cable railway
A cable railway (also known as an incline or inclined plane) is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable, rope or chain wound about a cable winch system (similar to a ski lift mechanism) powered by a stationary engine to haul trains on adversely steep grades.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Cromford
Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock.
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Cromford Canal
The Cromford Canal ran from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton.
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Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is a long heritage railway in Derbyshire.
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Edale
Edale is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, in the Midlands of England.
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Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.
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Friden, Derbyshire
Friden is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hartington Nether Quarter, Derbyshire, England.
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George Stephenson
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
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Grindleford
Grindleford is a village and civil parish in the county of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England.
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Gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.
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High Peak Junction
High Peak Junction, near Cromford, Derbyshire, England, is the name now used to describe the site where the former Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR), whose workshops were located here, meets the Cromford Canal.
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Hope, Derbyshire
Hope is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England.
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Hopton Incline
Until it closed in 1967 the Hopton Incline was the steepest stretch of conventional, adhesion-worked standard gauge railway running line in the UK.
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Hopton, Derbyshire
Hopton is a small village adjacent to the market town of Wirksworth in the Peak District, it is first mentioned in Domesday book in 1086 as a berewick (supporting farm) of the town and manor of Wirksworth and its two main industries from ancient times have been farming and lead mining.
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Horse mill
A horse mill is a mill, sometimes used in conjunction with a watermill or windmill, that uses a horse as the power source.
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Hurdlow railway station
Hurdlow railway station was near to the hamlet of Hurdlow to the south east of Buxton, Derbyshire on the LNWR line to Ashbourne and the south.
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Josias Jessop
Josias Jessop (1781–1826) was a noted canal engineer, and second son of William Jessop, one of the great canal engineers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Longcliffe
Longcliffe is a crossroads hamlet in the English county of Derbyshire.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway
The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway ran from a junction with the Midland Railway at Ambergate to Rowsley north of Matlock and thence to Buxton.
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Matlock, Derbyshire
Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England.
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Middleton-by-Wirksworth
Middleton-by-Wirksworth is an upland village lying approximately one mile NNW of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, Middleton was, in 1086, a berewick (a supporting farm) of the town and manor of Wirksworth.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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Mineral
A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.
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Minimum railway curve radius
The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centre line of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.
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National Cycle Network
The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring.
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Newbury, Berkshire
Newbury is a market town in Berkshire, England, which is the administrative headquarters of West Berkshire.
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North Staffordshire Railway
The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire.
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Parsley Hay railway station
Parsley Hay railway station served Parsley Hay, a hamlet about south east of Buxton, Derbyshire, on the LNWR line to Ashbourne.
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Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.
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Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.
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Pennine Bridleway
The Pennine Bridleway is a new National Trail in Northern England.
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Rail profile
The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length.
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River Goyt
The River Goyt is a river in North West England.
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Robert Stephenson and Company
Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823.
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Settle–Carlisle line
The Settle–Carlisle line (also known as the Settle and Carlisle (S&C)) is a main railway line in northern England.
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Stationary steam engine
Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation.
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Steeple Grange Light Railway
The Steeple Grange Light Railway is a heritage railway at Wirksworth in Derbyshire, UK.
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Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.
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Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway
The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway was an early railway company in England which was opened in 1857 between Stockport Edgeley and Whaley Bridge.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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Tansley
Tansley is a village on the southern edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, two miles east of Matlock.
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Textile
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).
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The Railway Magazine
The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.
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Tissington Trail
The Tissington Trail is a bridleway, footpath and cycleway in Derbyshire, England along part of the trackbed of the former railway line connecting Ashbourne to Buxton.
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Tramway (industrial)
Tramways (not to be confused with a system of passenger carrying trams) are lightly laid railways, sometimes worked without locomotives.
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Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a in the East Midlands, West Midlands, and north-west of England.
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Usk
Usk (Brynbuga) is a small town in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, situated northeast of Newport.
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Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals.
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Whaley Bridge
Whaley Bridge is a small town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, on the River Goyt southeast of Manchester, north of Buxton, east of Macclesfield and west of Sheffield.
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William Jessop
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Wirksworth
Wirksworth is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, with a population recorded as 5,038 in the 2011 census.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromford_and_High_Peak_Railway
