Everything about Darley Dale totally explained
Darley Dale, also known simply as
Darley, is a
town in
Derbyshire,
England, with a population of around 6,000 people. It lies north of
Matlock, on the
River Derwent and the
A6 road.
History
A Benedictine Abbey was built here under the reign of
Henry I in the twelfth century.
The town grew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the
lead mining and
smelting industries. It is also a
commuter town for workers in Matlock.
Between Darley Dale and Matlock is the Cawdor Quarry which supplied stone for Hyde Park Corner and the Thames Embankment in
London.
Famous people
Famous people associated with Darley Dale include
Notable buildings and attractions
Notable buildings in the town include its
fourteenth century parish church St. Helens, with a yew tree which is thought to be two thousand years old. The south transept has a stained glass window by
Burne-Jones and
William Morris.
Other attractions include the
Peak Rail railway which runs from Rowsley South to Matlock via a station at Darley Dale and the Whitworth Park, a large park located next to the railway.
It was the winner of the
2003 Britain in Bloom, in the category of 'Large Village'.
There is a bi-annual
arts festival, the Darley Dale Arts Festival, held in July in odd-numbered years.
In nearby
Two Dales, Ladygrove Mill was built for spinning
cotton by Abraham Flint, but converted to
flax spinning in 1789 by Daniel Dakeyne of Knabb House. It was expanded by his sons, Edward and James, who built a series of three dams on the Sydnope Valley rising to 96 feet. To cope with the water pressure, they invented a revolutionary water-pressure powered "disc engine", which they patented in 1830 as the
Dakeyne hydraulic disc engine. It was the progenitor of a type, now known as a "
Nutating disc engine" (which has been the subject of entrepreneurial interest in the 21st century). The mills and equipment have virtually disappeared but the remains of the dams can still be seen.
At the bottom of Station Road lies
Darley Dale railway station. Although national rail services ceased in the 1960s, the station has been for over 15 years occupied by the railway and heritage preservation group
Peak Rail. From here, a heritage steam service operates south to
Matlock and north to
Rowsley South, with a route distance of approximately five miles.
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