Peak District Online Launches New Bonsall video of the Peak District

Feb. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- The ancient village of Bonsall sits handsomely amidst the limestone hills two miles south west of Matlock and about the same distance from the A6 at Cromford, from where it is best approached along the A5012 which winds steadily up the Via Gellia valley on its way to Grangemill, and eventually to Buxton. The road to Bonsall climbs northward from beside the Via Gellia Mill and up the steep Clatterway before levelling out at the Victorian gothic Fountain beside the village recreation area, currently part of a village regeneration scheme.

The Dale branches to the left whilst the main road continues up Yeoman Street to the Market Cross in the centre of the village, and then twists and turns up High Street towards Uppertown before winding it's way over Bonsall Moor towards Winster.

Bonsall owes it's name to an Anglian settler named Bunt, and `Bunteshalle' ,- a `nook of land belonging to Bunt' was a thriving community long before it was mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1087.

The village owes it's size and relative prosperity almost exclusively to the numerous industries which once flourished beside the Bonsall Brook, and to the now defunct lead mining industry which two centuries ago provided the area's main employment.

http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/bonsall-c112.html

The Peak District Online village video can be seen at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2FrB-EYb8w



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