Peak District Online Launches New Winster Video In High Definition

Feb. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Winster lies within the Peak District National Park, just to the east of the B5056 Ashbourne to Bakewell road and about three miles as the crow flies due west of Matlock. The village, on the fringe of the White Peak, is perhaps best approached from the A6 at Darley Dale where the B5057 leads first to Darley Bridge and then climbs up through Wensley before levelling out as it approaches Winster.
Upon entering the village it becomes the Main Street, the scene of the famous Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races which are run annually from the Dower House at one end of the street to the Market House at the other, a distance of about 100 yards. Winster has a number of claims to fame and a fascinating history which includes murder, a double `lovers leap' suicide, a hall and a former inn which are both reputedly haunted, - and the first National Trust owned property in Derbyshire.
Recorded in the Domesday survey as `Winsterne', the village's early history is rather obscure although it is recorded as being one of the 114 Derbyshire manors held by Henry de Ferrers at the time of the Conquest. Around this time a Norman chapel was built on the site of the present church of St.John the Baptist, but it wasn't until 500 years later during the Elizabethan era that the present Winster began to take shape.
Today's Winster is designated a conservation area with around 70 listed buildings, most of which were built in the 18th century when in the space of 50 years between 1720 - 1770 the small village of 600 inhabitants became a lead-mining `boom-town'. At it's height there were more than 20 mines being worked in the area and the resident population swelled to over 2,000 people, - who quenched their collective thirst in 24 taverns or inns.

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http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/winster-c160.html

The Peak District Online village video can be seen at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bWeFCQ894



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