Wrest Park Former stately home owned by English Heritage. Between Luton and Bedford.
Wrest Park
Rushton Triangular Lodge Near Desborough. Used for a meeting of the Gunpowder Plot.
Rushton Triangular Lodge English Heritage property.
Rushton Hall Now a hotel, the triangular lodge was originally in the grounds of this house.
Naseby Battlefield English Civil War site
Naseby Battlefield
Foxton Locks On Leicester arm of Grand Union Canal near Market Harborough
Foxton Locks Flight of locks down steep hillside.
Foxton Locks
Bradgate Park North of Leicester.
Bradgate Park War memorial
Bradgate Park
Bradgate Park Old John Tower, built as a folly.
Bradgate Park Civil War army re-enacters.
Bradgate Park View of city of Leicester.
Rothley Station On preserved "Great Central Railway", the last mainline built to London and the only one closed.
Rothley Station
Belper The Derwent Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site....
Belper - Loom ...it was here that industry started with the development of mechanised ways of spinning cotton.
Hargreave's Spinning Jenny The first machine to spin the cotton.
Crompton's Spinning Mule The improvements developed rapidly in the late 18th century
Belper village Jedekiah Strutt built a village for the mill employees
Belper village This is 4 back to back houses for the managers. Each house in village had its own (outdoor) privy as well as a pigsty.
Strutt Lift Strutt's factory is the fore-runner of modern high-rise buildings due to the techniques he developed in the use of iron.
Belper village The railway had to be in a cutting as it sliced through the village so that it was not seen by the mill owners.
Cromford Mill Further up the valley, the side of Arkwright's mill.
Cromford Mill
Cromford Mill The remains of the water course (top left) and the hole where the mill-wheel was fixed to the building.
A6 old route beyond Buxton Modern road goes north to Chapel-en-le-Frith but original route goes over the top of the hills.
A6 old route beyond Buxton
Toddbrook Reservoir Above Whaley Bridge, it was in the news earlier in the year as the dam was in danger of bursting
Toddbrook Reservoir The reservoir is now drained whilst the dam is repaired.
Silverdale - Morecambe Bay Just west of the road at Carnforth
Silverdale - Morecambe Bay
Sizergh Castle grounds National Trust property on the A6 at Milnthorpe, just south of Kendal
Sizergh Castle grounds View towards the Lake District
Sizergh Castle grounds
Shap Fell A6 between Kendal and Penrith
Shap Abbey English Heritage Property
Shap Abbey
Shap Abbey resident
Brougham Castle English Heritage Castle near Penrith
Brougham Castle Former Borders stronghold
Brougham Castle At one time the River Eamont formed the border
Brougham Castle
Clifton Hall Remains of fortified border Manor/Farm house
Clifton Hall
Pooley Bridge - Ullswater Just west of the A6 at Penrith
Pooley Bridge
Unthank Just off the A6 north of Penrith
Carlisle Castle This has been both an English and a Scottish Royal Stronghold
Carlisle Castle
End of journey The road junction where the A6 ends - Carlisle City Centre is pedestrianised and beyond it the A7 stretches towards Edinburgh
Eden Valley I looped round through this valley on way back from Carlisle. Music used : "North by Northwest" and "Drive".