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	Derwent Reservoir walks - Howden Reservoir walk - The Dambusters Dam walk - walks in Yorkshire
		A circuit of the Upper Derwent valley and its reservoirs makes one of the finest low routes in the Peak, but for many it is too long and involves some road waking.
		This 17th-century bridge once spanned the river further south at Derwent village, but the construction of the Ladybower dam, which began in 1935, meant that the whole area would be submerged beneath the waters of the Derwent.
		Nearly two miles later it reaches the Derwent Dam, where there is a memorial to 617 Squadron the Dambusters, who buzzed this place on low-level practices for their May 1943 raid on Moehne and Eder Dams in Germany.
	www.dalesman.co.uk /walks/derwent.htm (803 words)

	The Derwent Dams provide water for Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester
		The Upper Valley of the Derwent is a deep valley surrounded by gritstone edges and dominated by three great reservoirs, constructed by the Derwent Valley Water Board primarily to provide water for Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester.
		The upper two dams, Howden and Derwent, were constructed between 1901 and 1916 and they were such a large undertaking that a village called Birchinlee was constructed in the upper valley to house the workers and a narrow-gauge railway was built between Howden Dam and the Midland Railway at Bamford.
		Derwent village can still be seen in very dry summers such as 1959, 1976 and 1995, and the spire of the church was left standing until 1959, when it was demolished.
	www.cressbrook.co.uk /visits/derwentdams.php (684 words)

	Upper Derwent Valley
		West of the Derwent, a large village known as 'Tintown' was created for the 'navvies' - the workers who built the dams, and their families, many of whom came from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales.
		The larger Ladybower Reservoir necessitated the flooding of the villages of Derwent and Ashopton, with the occupants being relocated.
		The topographical similarity between the Upper Derwent Valley and the Ruhr Valley of Germany led to the Dams being used as a practice environment for the Lancaster bombers of the 617 Dam Busters Squadron in 1943 prior to their attack on the Ruhr dams.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/u/up/upper_derwent_valley.html (319 words)

	Upper Derwent Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Upper Derwent Valley is an area of the Peak District National Park in England.
		West of the Derwent, a large village known as Birchinlee, locally known as 'Tintown' was created for the 'navvies' - the workers who built the dams, and their families, many of whom came from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales.
		The Dam Busters film was subsequently filmed at the Derwent Dams, and the area sees occasional commemorative flypasts by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Derwent_Valley (509 words)

	Upper Derwent Valley - Definition, explanation
		In 1899, the Derwent Valley Water Board was set up to supply water to Derby City, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the two Gothic-style dams were built across the River Derwent to create Howden Reservoir (1912) and Derwent Reservoir (1916).
		The larger Ladybower Reservoir necessitated the flooding of the villages of Derwent and Ashopton, with the occupants being relocated.
		The topographical similarity between the Upper Derwent Valley and the Ruhr Valley of Germany led to the Dams being used as a practice environment for the Lancaster bombers of the 617 Dam Busters Squadron in 1943 prior to their attack on the Ruhr dams.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/u/up/upper_derwent_valley.php (397 words)

	The Upper Catchment
		Construction of river intakes from the Rivers Ashop and Alport, so providing gravity transfer into Derwent Reservoir, increased the usable area of the catchemnt for the reservoirs in the upper Derwent Catchment.
		This is a naturally filling reservoir, with water flowing by gravity either for treatment at the Bamford Water Treatment Works and then via the Derwent Valley Aqueduct to the Midlands or supplied to Yorkshire Water via the Rivelin Tunnel.
		Built between 1902 and 1916, the dam is of a masonry construction.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /hydroinformatics/rbhd/derwent/upper.html (388 words)

	Derwent Valley Reservoirs in Derbyshire and the Peak District National Park
		Derwent reservoir was used by the RAF's Dambusters to practise their low level flying techniques during 1943, in preparation for delivering Barnes Wallis' famous 'bouncing bombs' to German dams.
		Located in the West Tower of the Derwent Valley Dam is the Derwent Dam (617 Squadron) Museum which houses a collection of memorabilia dedicated to the famous Dams Raid carried out by 617 “Dambusters” Squadron.
		Photographs from the reservoirs in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire at Derbyshire Photographs
	www.derbyshireuk.net /derwentvalley_reservoirs.html (586 words)

	Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District
		The tiny village of Yorkshire Bridge, in the Upper Derwent Valley, lies in the shadow of the dam wall of the Ladybower Reservoir.
		This entailed the flooding of the villages of Ashopton and Derwent and caused considerable unrest.
		The ancient Derwent packhorse bridge, which had a preservation order on it, was painstakingly moved stone by stone and rebuilt at Slippery Stones at the head of the Howden Reservoir.
	www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk /yorkshirebridge.htm (1200 words)

	Ladybower, Derwent & Howden reservoirs - Peak District
		Full Description: The Derwent and Howden dams (built between 1901 and 1916) were made famous in 1943 when the RAF 617 Squadron used the dams to practise their famous Dambuster raid against the Ruhr dams in Germany.
		Built between 1935 and 1943 by the Derwent Valley Water Board, Ladybower Reservoir was officially opened by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 25th September, 1945.
		The reservoirs in the Upper Derwent Valley are most famous for the fact that they were used by 617 Squadron, the Dambusters, to practice their raids prior to their mission to the Ruhr Dams in Germany.
	www.yorkshire-bridge.co.uk /tourist/The-Upper-Derwent-valley-reservoirs.html (973 words)

	Derwent Valley, Derwent Valley Peak District, Derwent Valley Derbyshire, Derwent Valley Rivers
		Derwent Church had to undergo exhumation of it's graves for reburial at Bamford.
		The Packhorse Bridge at Derwent was moved stone by stone, and rebuilt at Slippery Stones, at the head of Howden reservoir, since it had a preservation order on it.
		Derwent reservoir was used by the RAF's Dambusters to practise their low level flying techniques during 1943, in preparation for delivering Barnes Wallis' famous 'bouncing bombs' to German dams.
	www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk /content.php?categoryId=1599 (1229 words)

	Facts : Upper Derwent : Places to go : Recreation : Severn Trent Water
		Howden reservoir (1912), Upper Derwent (1916) and the 1940s Ladybower were all built to serve the growing demand for water from Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester.
		The Packhorse Bridge at Upper Derwent was moved stone by stone, and rebuilt at Slippery Stones at the head of Howden reservoir, since it had a preservation order on it.
		Derwent reservoir was used by the RAF's Dambusters to practise their low level flying techniques during 1943, in preparation for delivering Barnes Wallis' famous 'bouncing bombs' to German dams.
	www.stwater.co.uk /server.php?show=nav.001003001002004 (419 words)

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		Derwent Valley, the Central London investor and developer, is commemorating the life of celebrated architect Ian Davidson, by naming its latest Covent Garden office development - at 5 Southampton Street, London WC2 - the Davidson Building, in memory of the man who masterminded its design.
		The upper storey of the building is set back along both façades, providing the occupants with a terrace and views over Covent Garden.
		Ian Davidson, who was 48 when he died of a heart attack in February, was a partner in Lifschutz Davidson, which has undertaken a number of projects for Derwent Valley.
	www.derwentvalley.co.uk /LATEST_NEWS/090503/090503.htm (221 words)

	National Trust \| High Peak Estate \| Derwent / Howden Moors
		The steep side valleys, known locally as cloughs, which feed into the main Derwent valley, contain areas of woodland, which are all that remain of the ancient 'Royal hunting forest of the Peak'.
		Between the moorland and the reservoirs of the valley bottom is enclosed farmland, some of which is important for flowering hay meadows.
		Like the rest of the High Peak Estate, Derwent Edge is rich in archaeology, with evidence of land use and occupation back to Neolithic times.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-highpeakestate/w-highpeakestate-countryside/w-east_midlands-places-peakdistrict-map-derwent_howden_moors.htm (806 words)

	I Dig Sheffield \| Digging Around Sheffield and the Peaks \| Object (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The Upper Derwent - 10,000 years in a Peak District Valley" is the fruit of 10 years research by national park archaeologist Dr Bill Bevan.
		The Upper Derwent, which includes the famous Ladybower, Derwent and Howden reservoirs, is a glorious area of forest, heath, rivers, farmland and tors, which has been the scene of human activity since prehistory.
		Written in an easily accessible style and superbly illustrated with photos and artworks, the book will not only be a useful resource for researchers, teachers and students but for residents and visitors with an interest in local history.
	www.idigsheffield.org.uk /textonly/tonewsitem.asp?news=32 (365 words)

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		A feature of the upper valley of the River Dove is the row of sharp-edged limestone hills which line the north side of the river almost like teeth.
		The reason that Laguna Meadows, Artcraft and the "garage row" were approved is because the Upper Valley was fragmented.
		The Upper Valley of the Derwent is dominated by three great reservoirs, Howden, Derwent, and the Ladybower.
	www.lycos.com /info/upper-valley.html (541 words)

	Derwent History 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1672 the Balguys, who built their Hall at Derwent in that year, had the patronage, and the chapel was used by them virtually as a domestic chapel to the Hall.
		The font in the later Church at Derwent is known to have born the inscription ‘Henry Balguy 1672’ (the very same year).
		The silver marks show it was made in 1768, so it may have been donated in that year, but it seems more likely to have been in secular use first and presented to the chapel after Dr. Denman had bought the patronage, and possibly to mark the assumption of the patronage.
	www.stcyprian.force9.co.uk /page11.html (1493 words)

	The Derwent Valley Trust
		Sections of the Derwent Valley Heritage Way that are accessible by wheelchair include Ladybower Dam, The Thornhill Trail, Matlock Parks including Hall Leys and Lovers Walk in Matlock Bath, Cromford Canal from Cromford to High Peak Junction and the Little Eaton and Derby cycle routes as described above.
		The Derwent valley is easy to travel to and within, so why not leave the car at home and relax and enjoy the journey by bus or train.
		The Derwent Valley Trust is a charitable trust supported by all the local authorities and many other organisations and businesses in this beautiful part of Derbyshire.
	www.nationalheritagecorridor.org.uk /overview.htm (1420 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Special water protects rare birds
		Birds of prey in the Upper Derwent Valley are among the most persecuted in the country and face extinction locally.
		Last year no goshawk chicks were successfully reared in the Derwent Valley, despite nesting attempts by seven pairs of birds.
		In January this year, a man was sent to jail for four months for possessing a goshawk taken from a nest in Hagg Side in the Peak District.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/2813085.stm (325 words)

	DPIW - Soil Erosion in Tasmania
		Gully erosion is absent from large parts of King island, north west Tasmania, the northern midlands, upper Derwent Valley and Central Plateau.
		In Tasmania landslips occur on the geologically immature basalt soils along the north west coast, and the steep Jurassic dolerite and sedimentary slopes of the southern midlands and Huon channel.
		Steep upper slopes on Jurassic dolerite and sedimentary rocks in the Huon Valley.
	www.dpiw.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/TPRY-5Z66Z8?open (667 words)

	Upper Derwent Valley
		Derwent Dam was truly impressive and the two shots here in no way do it justice.
		From that point we were looking at the watery grave of Derwent Village which was controversially flooded during the 1930's when Ladybower Dam was constructed.
		The whole route was around 11 miles and whilst the first stage (one and a half miles) was challenging for the most part the route was along straightforward, reasonably level tracks.
	www.fatherpie.co.uk /walks/derwent.htm (1314 words)

	Photographs from the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire including Derwent rReservoir, Ladybower Reservoir and Howden ...
		Photographs from the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire and the Peak District including Derwent Reservoir, Ladybower Reservoir and Howden Reservoir as well as the derwent valley dams and remains of the demolished Derwent village.
		Landscape Photographs from the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire and the Peak District
		Derwent Valley 6 Derwent Valley 7 Derwent Valley 8 Derwent Valley 9 Derwent Valley 10
	www.derbyshire-photographs.co.uk /derwent_valley3.html (175 words)

	TrailZone - Main Home Page
		This is the lower end of the Upper Derwent Valley.
		The view here is oblique looking into the lower end of the Upper Derwent Valley as though the viewer were hovering over the high moors at the top of the high moors at a height of about 5,500ft.
		On the right of that, the Alport ridge and valley: on the left, the Derwent edge with Lost Lad visible (bottom left).
	home.clara.net /bonez/areaspeaksdams1.html (127 words)

	ArchSearch: Collection description: The Upper Derwent: long-term landscape archaeology in the Peak District
		Ph.D thesis: The Upper Derwent: long-term landscape archaeology in the Peak District
		This evidence is integrated into an interpretation of the landscape history of the Upper Derwent, covering a period from the approximate end of the last Ice Age to the modern day.
		The subsequent history of the Upper Derwent landscape until the early 20th century was one of adding to and reworking existing patterns of settlement and land-use within the relationship between landlord and tenant as practised through the estate system.
	ads.ahds.ac.uk /catalogue/collections/blurbs/445.cfm?CFID=379965&CFTOKEN=40396270 (637 words)

	Peak District National Park: Time/Upper Derwent
		The Upper Derwent is a beautiful valley in the Dark Peak.
		There is evidence that people have lived here for over 10,000 years - from the time the glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated from the region.
		Unlike other more developed areas of Britain, we know a lot about the Upper Derwent's history because there are many surviving features and artefacts from different periods, and since 1994 the National Park's Archaeology Service has been conducting the Upper Derwent Archaeological Survey.
	www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info /time/derwent/index.html (89 words)

	www.peakdistrict.gov.uk - Upper Derwent Valley Woodlands Regeneration Management Plan
		The Upper Derwent Valley is an attractive wooded valley cutting into the surrounding high moorland plateau and containing the impounded headwaters of the River Derwent.
		The Upper Derwent Valley Woodlands Regeneration Project builds on this work to develop a common management approach to conserving and enhancing the important wooded landscape of the valley.
		As well as a management tool, it is hoped this new plan will aid future funding bids to enable the proposals to be fully implemented.
	www.peakdistrict.gov.uk /index/looking-after/areaplans/derwentmanplan.htm (490 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The broad central plateau is limestone, producing undulating pasture on thin soil, with relatively few trees, dissected by incised river valleys or 'dales' of great beauty, some relatively undisturbed and of considerable natural and scientific interest.
		There are 40,000 residents, but parts of the park remain quite remote and it forms an 'oasis of protected countryside, with provision for leisure use, in the heart of the industrialized north and midlands.
		Conservation/visitor management areas have been provided in the Goyt Valley 1328ha, at Tideswell Dale 27.5ha and on the Tissington and High Peak Trails 108ha, as well as being actively developed at a number of localities including Dovedale, Longdendale and the Derwent Valley.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0002v.htm (875 words)

	Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District
		It is the sole surviving village in Derbyshire’s ‘Lake District.’ The villages of Ashopton and Derwent were submerged when the Ladybower Reservoir was constructed.
		One person refused to move, Miss A Cotterill, of Ginnett House, whose home looked down on the former hamlet of Derwent, remained there until she died in 1990, at the age of 99, the waters of the reservoir lapping at the front garden steps.
		The dams in the valley were used by Dr Barnes Wallis and his team to test his bouncing bombs, and the film The Dambusters was partly shot here.
	www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk /bamford.htm (1276 words)

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