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2024-03-28T16:40:11+00:00text/html2010-05-29T16:12:09+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.246151 -1.824196SP1260 : Alne Farm training track
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The public footpath across this square crosses the Alne Park Horse Training Track, some of the jumps of which are shown in the picture.text/html2009-04-08T11:25:49+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.988462 -1.702030SK2043 : Thatched cottage in Osmaston
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A classic picture postcard view of one of the cottages in this picturesque village.text/html2009-04-08T11:23:07+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.965037 -1.681347SK2140 : Thatched cottages near Shirley
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This thatched building, with distinctive thatched panels between the first floor windows, is beside the road into Shirley from Rodsley. The building may have originally been a row of individual cottages but appears to have been modernised and extended with a garage block to the left. It does now appear to be in need of a little tlc.text/html2009-04-08T11:19:21+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.964146 -1.684331SK2140 : Shirley Mill Farm
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The valley of the Shirley Brook was dammed to power several mills. The mill wheel here was at the rear of the tall building to the left as can be seen in [[297707]].text/html2009-04-08T11:14:01+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.960573 -1.693290SK2040 : Rodsley
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A nicely well tended verge and display of daffodils on the road into the village from Shirley.text/html2009-04-08T11:12:02+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.956989 -1.697781SK2040 : Rodsley
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Looking along the dead-end lane in the SE corner of this rather scattered village.text/html2009-04-08T11:09:33+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.954289 -1.696311SK2039 : Compton
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1241003
This small building beside the lane to Rodsley appears to have been built as a stable block and possibly also for use by a farrier.text/html2009-04-08T11:07:10+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.950693 -1.696336SK2039 : Polytunnels at Park Style Farm
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1240995
The polythene sheets provide a decidedly non-agricultural looking lines in a field beside the lane to Rodsley.text/html2009-04-08T11:04:08+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.948891 -1.694860SK2039 : Park Style Farm
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This is the main farmhouse seen from the road to Rodsley, and it, along with the outbuildings just visible beyond has been modernised and converted into a small community of dwellings.text/html2009-04-08T10:54:01+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.947082 -1.690408SK2038 : Carr Wood
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Looking towards Carr Wood from the footpath (across a recently ploughed field!) between Longford Hall and Park Style Farm.text/html2009-04-08T10:52:06+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.941665 -1.681519SK2138 : Longford Hall stable block
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This is the imposing but sadly currently disused stable block and coach house. The clock was designed and built by John Whitehurst the eminent scientist, geologist and inventor of clocks and instruments who lived nearby in Derby from 1736-1780. He was a founder member of the Lunar Society in Birmingham and an early member of the Derby Philosophical Society.text/html2009-04-08T10:46:33+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.941665 -1.681519SK2138 : St Chad's, Longford
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1240967
This is the Parish church of Longford and it in the grounds of the adjacent Longford Hall, although nearly a mile from the village of Longford itself. Spring is in the air with the daffodils showing in the churchyard.
The present building is Norman in origin with extensive subsequent alterations including the tower (1350-1550) and chapel for the local landowners, the de Longford family and another for the Bentley family.text/html2009-04-08T10:38:46+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.940766 -1.681525SK2138 : The east front of Longford Hall
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Longford Hall was built in the 1560s for the de Longford family and "Georgianised" by Joseph Pickford in 1762. It was restored in the 1960s after a bad fire in 1942 and as a result the top story, as can be seen here, is just a façade.text/html2009-04-08T10:32:32+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.940762 -1.680037SK2138 : Longford Hall
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1240944
Looking through the gateway from the public footpath from Longford Village.text/html2009-04-08T10:30:25+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/120David Stowell52.937158 -1.677088SK2137 : Village Hall
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/1240938
At the junction of the road in to Longford Village. The round sign proclaims "The small village winner".