A Guide to the Peak of Derbyshire (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3textit{Ornithology. In the month of September 18J8, a beautiful falcon, a bird that no person remembered to have seen at Matlock Bath, was shot there; and in January 1822, a fine eagle was shot at Lea-wood near Cromford: o the extent of its wings when displayed was seven feet four inches and a half, and it weighed eight pounds and three quarters: it is preserved and is now in the possession of Peter Arkwright Esq. of the Rock House. The king fisher and ring ousel are sometimes found by the Derwent, and in the season for grous shooting, the moors abounding with them attract a number of sportsmen to Buxton, who sometimes meet with that singular bird, the dotterel, when in pursuit of their game. The account that remains to be given of various objects and places alluded to in the title page, may be preceded by a few remarks, and they can be but few, concerning Derby, the county Town, and Kedleston, the elegant Mansion of Lord Scarsdale situated near it. DERBY. Derby is computed to contain at present about twenty-four thousand inhabitants, every year of late having made large additions to its population. It contains five churches, and another with free sittings is about to be added to the number; that of All Saints, is the great ornament of the town. Its beautiful and much admired gothic tower was erected in the reign of Henry the Eighth and is said to be one hundred and seventy eight feet high; the body of the Church is in the Grecian style; and was built after the designs of Gibbs in the years 1723, 1724, and 1725. In the south part of the chancel is the burial place of the noble family of Cavendish, for whom, there arc several nionuments. Against the south wall is that of the celebrated Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, -. = with her effigies in a recumbent attitude. The epitaph after recordi...