Peak District Online latest Video - Monyash

Jan. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Monyash  in The Peak District, is an attractive village situated close to one of Derbyshire's most beautiful dales, Lathkill dale. Monyash  owes much of its existence to the presence of a bed of impervious clay, able to hold water in 4 original ponds or `meres` as they are known. Only one mere remains.

Monyash was built up as an important lead mining centre and market village, its market charter having been granted in 1340. The old market cross, which still stands on the village green, had its base supposedly made from old village stocks.It was also once the site of a Barmote Court, the oldest industrial court in the country but this is now held in Wirksworth. It was also once known as a Quaker centre, the farm house, at the head of Lathkill Dale, known as One Ash Grange, being the site of a place of confinement for unruly monks. It was visited on many occasions by John Gratton, a well known Quaker, who lived for a time in Monyash.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcxR-BaM7c



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