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A very steep path up through the trees from the viaduct below brings you to this wonderful viewpoint and the Monsal Head Hotel. The river is the Wye.
This view has been photographed and painted thousands of times!!
We're on a family holiday in the Peak District and found the odd spare minute to take a photo or two.
James pictures list of 101 Peak District Landscape Photography locations has been incredibly useful and reccomend a visit to his site if you are in the area.
This led us to the Headstone Tunnel.
The Headstone Viaduct viewed from Monsal Head in the Derbyshire White Peak. The viaduct was onstructed by the Midland Railway in the 1860s to carry trains across Monsal Dale and the River Wye and on to Buxton and Manchester and was closed in the 1960s. It is now a recreational trail.
Padstow
The churchyard at St. Petroc’s Church in Padstow. The grounds are believed at date back to around 850AD. Most of the headstones in this section are inscribed with dates in the 1800’s. There are an awful lot of infant deaths, and deaths of young people. We also noticed that only a handful of the people named on the stones lived passed their 60’s, even the ones who were wealthy enough to afford more elaborate memorials.
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The remaining piece of a dead bristlecone pine reminds me of a headstone for the one behind it. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California, USA, July 2021
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The only way I could shoot these with my current lenses was to do it in two parts. The 50mm f/1.4 is good in low light, but tight in closed spaces. The first shot was in Jan. of this year, and the second was from Feb.
Rail Operations Group Locomotive No.37510 Orian is seen on the WCML passing through Headstone Lane on the 17th of September 2022, working the 09:42 5Q73 unit move consisting of Class 720 C2C EMU No.720605 from Derby Litchurch Lane to Wembley Intercity Depot.
Taken with the aid of a pole.
Monsal Dale. The Headstone Viaduct once carried the Midland Railway mainline through the Peak District to Manchester. The line was closed in 1968 and reopened in 1981 as the Monsal Trail. The trail is open to walkers, horse riders and cyclists and is very popular.
Mamiya M645 1000s camera with Mamiya 145mm Soft Focus lens mounted on a Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod, Ilford FP4 developed in Moerch FINOL 5:5:500 in a JOBO at slowest rotation speed.
Sinking Spring Cemetery, opened 1772, Abingdon, Virginia.
From Monsal Head, the imposing Headstone Viaduct, intersects the dale. Built by the Midland Railway in 1863, the viaduct effortlessly glides over the River Wye, and is today recognised as a part of the landscape.
The viaduct, usually incorrectly called Monsal Dale Viaduct, is 300 feet (91m) long, with five 50-foot (15m) span arches, some forty feet high at the centre. Initially, some slippage occurred, and remedial work was carried out in 1907-8. Whilst considered elegant today, and indeed a preservation order was placed on the viaduct in 1970, when it was built in 1863 it was seen as destroying the beauty of the dale.
John Ruskin, considered to be Britain's leading writer on culture, having had many works published on architecture and art, as well as political works, harshly criticized the building of the railway. Ruskin, however, in his famous Fors Clavigera, wrote of the spoliation of this beautiful Dale: 'That valley where you might expect to catch sight of Pan, Apollo, and the Muses, is now deseasted in order that a Buxton fool may be able to find himself in Bakewell at the end of twelve minutes, and vice versa'
As a fan of metamorphic rocks, I was drawn to this.
In this cemetery, probably 90 percent of the headsones are grey or red granite, probably from New Hampshire. Perhaps 10 percent (mostly military) are Colorado Yule marble, from Marble, Colorado. I think I saw no more than 5 or 6 metamorphic ones, all seemingly from a single quarry.
Here you see dramatic light on the very spookily-named Funeral Range in Death Valley, California, 2017.
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Cut through the limestone cliff at Monsal Dale, Derbyshire. Formerly part of the Midland Railway, 533 yards (487m) long and completed in 1863; the line was closed in the 1960s and now part of the Monsal walking trail.
A Dollar Sign Headstone.
You can't take it with you, but you can show people you had it, apparently.
Note: A comment from a learned person elsewhere — Intertwined IHS / Christogram (First three letters in the Greek spelling of Jesus) - or it could be a 'Trinity Celtic Knot' which was adopted by early Christians to symbolize the Holy Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Headstone Tunnel on the Monsal Trail in The Peak District.
The Monsal Trail is an old railway line that closed in 1958 and has now been turned into a 8.5 mile path for walkers, cyclists and horses.
To be honest me and the girlfriend only walked about a mile of it. but we went through a 487 metre long tunnel and across a 91 metre long viaduct built in 1863 which was 40ft above the valley floor and back again, a pretty decent walk!
I couldnt help but think of the Wirral Way when i walking the trail. They both used to be old railway lines and though you could say the Monsal Trail has better views i think the thing about these old railway lines is that they always have a story behind them and thats why they are always worth an explore.
one last thing, this would make an excellent spot for a bit of light painting as the lights go off at night!
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A quick visit to Terre Haute, Monday, 1/3/2022.
Gbrf Class 47/7 No.47727 Edinburgh Castle is seen passing through Headstone Lane on the 18th of July 2020, in charge of the 11:31 5Q60 EMU move from Northampton to Ilford EMUD, incorporating Greater Anglia EMU 360118 which was returning from Northampton after receiving modification’s ready for it’s upcoming transfer over to East Midlands Railways.
Class mate 47749 is seen on the rear.