Above: Yours truly pictured at the ruins of Errwood Hall with ITV Calendar presenter, Kerrie Gosney, and camera man (name to follow). My fleeting moment of fame lasted only a few minutes. But it provided a reason for returning to the valley after my recent move south....
Above: This illustration, which appears on the cover of Gerald Hancock’s wonderful booklet on the valley, would have been painted around 1900. My thanks to Michael Baines for allowing me to scan some of his wonderful postcards of the Goyt Valley. They include an...
Above: The gunpowder mill once employed around 100 men. Today the ruins lie beneath the northern end of Fernilee Reservoir. Joyce published the 56-page, A5 booklet in 1996. For a signed copy, send a cheque for £8 made out to J Winfield, 13 Jodrell Meadow, Whaley...
Above: The old pump room has completely vanished! It was quite an eye-sore so I’m not sorry to see it go. And it means the footpath to Taxal has finally reopened. It’s taken almost a year, but the footpath between Fernilee and Taxal, past the old pump...
Above: This attractive footpath is at around point 9 on the map below. Above: The walk starts from the small carpark at the northern end of Fernilee Reservoir. (Click to enlarge.) I’ve just added walk 18 to the series: Fernilee Reservoir west bank. It’s...
Above: George’s composite photo of Errwood Farm alongside an 1888 map. The blue areas are today’s twin reservoirs, and the green dashes show the old north-south route through the valley. Above: Click image to enlarge. My thanks to George for sending a...
Above: The green dashes show the road from Goyt’s Bridge as it passes Masters Farm (above left and circled on the map) and winds down the valley towards the nearby Gunpowder Mill, and on to Fernilee and then Whaley Bridge. The blue area shows the...
Above: This 1888 OS map shows that Goyt’s Bridge changed very little between then and the early ’30s when this photo was taken. The green arrow shows the direction of view. Goytshead Farm is opposite, and was a popular spot for afternoon teas. The...
Above: There’s quite a change from the 1888 map on the left and a satellite image today. Fernilee Reservoir to the north was opened in 1937. Work on Errwood Reservoir was postponed because of the war. And was eventually declared open in 1968. The...
Click to enlarge the photo. Gerald Hancock, author of ‘Goyt Valley Romance’ – and sadly no longer with us – kindly allowed me to scan his collection of Goyt Valley photos when I first started this website back in 2010. The...
