Peak District Online - A video of Birchover in the Peak District!

Jan. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- The White Peak village of Birchover stands amidst magnificent rock scenery on a west facing hillside beneath the towering bulk of Stanton Moor, and the stone from it`s quarries is famed throughout the land.
This area of Derbyshire is rich in mineral deposits, and lead mining, quarrying for stone, and spar mining for barytes has provided the population with its main industry down the centuries. Birchover stone from Stanton quarries has provided the raw material for the construction of many noteable buildings including the Tower of London, Windsor Castle and the Houses of Parliament.

The earliest settlement was originally located at what is now known as Uppertown, about half a mile south and slightly higher up the hill than the modern-day village of Birchover.

The Saxons were the first to settle here, and the Normans built the first church, but by the Middle Ages the population of `Barcovere` as it is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 had outgrown the available water supply and so the whole village moved further down the hill to where the water was more plentiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASOa82G1EH0



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