IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ladybower, HOPE VALLEY, S33 0AX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ladybower, S33 0AX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (105 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
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Overlooking Ashopton
A few old buildings above the high waterline of Ladybower reservoir are all that remains of the lost village of Ashopton.
Image: © Jonathan Clitheroe
Taken: 15 Jun 2011
0.06 miles
2
Trees of Ashopton area
Ashopton was a village lost as the waters of Ladybower Reservoir rose; the name is printed broadly and vaguely on OS. Landranger map 110 north and north-east of the Ashopton Viaduct referring to the area in view in this image.
Image: © Trevor Littlewood
Taken: 13 Mar 2011
0.06 miles
3
Viaduct - Ladybower Reservoir
From the south bank (bottom edge of grid) looking north to the viaduct.
Image: © Stephen Horncastle
Taken: 11 Apr 2004
0.07 miles
4
Lady Bower Reservoir, Peak District
The Lady Bower Reservoir was constructed in 1935 and was an even larger project that the Howden and Derwent Reservoirs which had already been constructed and was downstream of these two earlier dams. The construction of Ladybower Dam flooded the area around the junction of the Derwent with the Ashop. This project, first mooted in the early 1920s, caused considerable controversy because it involved the flooding of two villages; Ashopton - which lay at the junction of the Ashop and the Derwent - and Derwent, which lay upstream on the Derwent river. Despite protests the dam went ahead and was finished in 1943, though the reservoir took a further two years to fill. At the time this was the largest reservoir in Britain. The flooding of the two villages was the worst damage inflicted by the water authorities in their many projects around the Peak District, and highlighted the damage which these can do to the environment - though paradoxically Ladybower is now a major tourist attraction. The area is also famous for being used as a testing ground for the bouncing bombs used in the Dambusters Raid. There are also rumours of ghostly Lancaster bombers, though I seem to recall reading in the newspaper that this had been explained by someone using a slide projector onto low cloud.
Image: © Christine Matthews
Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
5
Elizabeth II postbox on the A57, Ashopton
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Jun 2018
0.07 miles
6
Close up, Elizabeth II postbox on the A57, Ashopton
Postbox No. S33 431.
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Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Jun 2018
0.07 miles
7
A57, Ashopton
Showing position of Postbox No. S33 431.
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Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Jun 2018
0.07 miles
8
Bus stop on the A57, Ashopton
Looking west.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Jun 2018
0.07 miles
10
Bridleway leaves the road
The public bridleway that runs along the east side of Ladybower Reservoir leaves the A57 road.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 25 Jun 2018
0.07 miles