Today's poet

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Originally Posted by XRunner

Here is an early poem about Winnats Pass:

Sullen and vast the Winyates fearful chasm
Yawns on the vale, as if an earthquake’s strength
Had spent itself in one convulsive spasm,
And then subsided – its tremendous length
Cleaving the hill’s deep heart from side to side
In jagged lines . . .
Array’d on either hand
Majestic images of beauty stand
In stately rows – a mimicry of tall
Cathedral, steeple, turret, castle - wall,
And frowning battlements, whose reeling height
Is such that mortals tremble at the sight

Thomas Barlow 1867

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This is really uplifting x runner, i'd like to go there some day, thanks so much for posting

John Cooper Clarke 'New Assassin' just been on Gideon Coe :cool:

I've got a 10inch clear vinyl live album of his and it's brilliant (and apparently quite collectable).

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Originally Posted by freckle

This is really uplifting x runner, i'd like to go there some day, thanks so much for posting

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Winnats Pass is a lovely spot. You really must get down there some time. I've driven it, ran it, walked it, cycled it and sledged it before now.

A lovely part of the world.

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Winnats Pass is a lovely spot. You really must get down there some time. I've driven it, ran it, walked it, cycled it and sledged it before now.

A lovely part of the world.

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some day HHH some day! might take the little uns :)

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Originally Posted by freckle

some day HHH some day! might take the little uns :)

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They'd love it. There are loads of limestone caves to visit too. Even one with a boat.

And there is also lots of good running. :)

Castleton and Winnats would be a good day out for the junior freckles :cool: it was the standard school geography field trip from my area of the Midlands and it's fascinating

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Castleton and Winnats would be a good day out for the junior freckles :cool: it was the standard school geography field trip from my area of the Midlands and it's fascinating

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Ooo good thank you DT i'll bear that in mind! :)

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Castleton and Winnats would be a good day out for the junior freckles :cool:

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They could visit this place:)

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Originally Posted by XRunner

They could visit this place:)

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I guessed what the link was without looking at it ;)

Was down in that part of the Peak on Sunday for Tanky's. A wonderful area :cool:

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Originally Posted by XRunner

They could visit this place:)

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Ooo thank you looks v good :)