20. September 2020

largely hidden from view by the chestnut trees around it. A church was recorded on the site in the Domesday survey of 1086. The present Chapel is believed to have been a complete rebuild from the early 1500s and was the main place of worship for the village. Gladwyn Turbutt wrote, "it is not unlikely that Hugh Willoughby, Sergeant at Arms to Henry VIII, rebuilt Trinity Chapel as a memorial to his wife Margaret, who died in 1511." The chapel came under the jurisdiction of the rectors of Morton....

20. September 2020

Boots's Folly is a curious and mysterious structure. It quite obviously contains masonry from an earlier farmhouse. The entrance has a 17th century datestone and the windows of the lower storeys contain old mullions obviously extracted from elsewhere. The upper windows are by contrast, relatively modern, with metal frames. The interior is now ruinous, but enough of it survives to reveal that it consisted of a wooden staircase leading around the walls up to a single chamber on the top storey,...

07. September 2020

Oakhurst House is a derelict building in Shining Cliff Woods above the village of Ambergate in Derbyshire. The house was built in 1848 by Francis Hurt behind his iron forge in Ambergate. It was owned by the Johnson family of industrialists for many years who were benefactors in the local area, building the parish church of St. Anne at Ambergate. Originally a forge house, it was leased by the Hurts to the Iron Master Charles Mold, who died there in 1846. Hurt persuaded the young William Henry...

07. September 2020

Hidden in the rolling hills of Derbyshire is The unfinished house . With its odd fusty smells