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Ilam is best known as the location of the neo-Gothic Ilam Hall, a stately home built in the 1820s, and now a youth hostel owned by the National Trust. It is set in large parklands that are open to visitors.
Ilam is about 4 miles from Ashbourne at the entrance to the scenic Manifold Valley. Ilam is very picturesque, with its "Swiss chalet" style houses and matching school house. It also lies close to the popular Dovedale valley.
Ilam is best known as the location of the neo-Gothic Ilam Hall, a stately home built in the 1820s, and now a youth hostel owned by the National Trust. It is set in large parklands that are open to visitors.
Ilam is about 4 miles from Ashbourne at the entrance to the scenic Manifold Valley. Ilam is very picturesque, with its "Swiss chalet" style houses and matching school house. It also lies close to the popular Dovedale valley.
Ilam is best known as the location of the neo-Gothic Ilam Hall, a stately home built in the 1820s, and now a youth hostel owned by the National Trust. It is set in large parklands that are open to visitors.
Ilam is about 4 miles from Ashbourne at the entrance to the scenic Manifold Valley. Ilam is very picturesque, with its "Swiss chalet" style houses and matching school house. It also lies close to the popular Dovedale valley.
Grade ll listed building in Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Slight correction to converging verticals.
Cloned out a waste bin and a road sign, signature added.
All else SOOC
I was going for a gritty feel … Fuji XT5 and Viltrox 13mm f1.4 Tri-X 400 film sim but at 12,800 ISO, so in terms of grit I feel I succeeded
An evening inversion over Ashbourne.
Taken a few days ago, the misty weather that had been around all day coalesced at sunset into something interesting. I’d been working all day but saw this as I was on my way home. On the left horizon is Bunster, and on the right the hills above Dovedale.
The buildings of the Queen Elizabeth Grammer School sitting just proud of the evening mists.
Founded in Ashbourne in 1585, these buildings date back to the early 20th century
Taken by my eldest from the car window as we were travelling to Buxton...a few tweaks in Snapseed and Adobe Photoshop Express. Olympus Pen F and Zuiko 12mm f2
A market town, its market charter was granted in 1257
Located 14 miles west of Derby, near the southern edge of the Peak District.
It is the closest town to Dovedale, and is often referred to as The Gateway to Dovedale.
The town sits at the start of the Tissington Trail footpath, which makes it popular with walkers and cyclists.
Ashbourne has more than 200 listed buildings. Of particular interest are the Old Grammar School, the reputedly longest inn sign in the world, located outside The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel, and the beautiful St Oswald's Parish Church with its striking 212 feet high spire.
The town is famous for its ancient tradition of Royal Shrovetide Football. The game is played each Shrovetide Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. It's a unique and unruly event that bears little resemblance to the modern game!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashbourne,_Derbyshire
St John Street
Looking East
A rare, painted, gallows-type inn sign bridges the road.
The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel
A famous Georgian coaching inn, circa 18th century.
The sign over the road was constructed in 1825 when the Green Man and the Blackmoor Inn were joined
The sign was Grade II listed in 1951, and updated to Grade II* in 1974.
The gallows-type sign is mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest inn sign in the world.
It was damaged by a lorry strike in 2006, but subsequently repaired.
The original sign featured an effigy of a black man's head.
Go here to see my image taken in 2016: flic.kr/p/GNmUix
In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, a 28,000-signature petition called for the head to be taken down, describing it as "disgusting racist imagery".
Derbyshire Dales District Council said it would remove the head as soon as possible, but locals removed it the same day, saying they had done so to protect it from vandalism, adding it would be restored with "a lick of black paint" and reinstalled at a later date.
The council, however, decided against replacing the controversial head, and its future currently remains undecided.
Grade ll* listed.
Ashbourne Reborn
A £15.2m transformation project which will improve public spaces and the pedestrian experience with wider pavements and safer crossings.
This part of the Ashbourne Reborn project has been completed, and the wider pavements and safer crossings can be seen.
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