Introduction
The family were staying at my brother's for a few days in the Christmas period. Joss led us on a walk which started at Bakewell. At that point, snow from a few days back had largely melted, but it was a fairly grey day and rained a bit.
The walk
Passing by the opportunity to obtain Bakewell pudding (they don't call it tart...) we started resolutely by scrambling up a path/meltwater stream to gain the hilltops near Bakewell.
Walking across the hills, we eventually reached Edensor, a model village on the Chatsworth estate.
A coffee shop in the village was open, so while the others were buying takeaway hot drinks (they didn't get me anything!), I found a place to eat our sandwiches in the porch of the church. The church was apparently designed by George Gilbert Scott - not the one of Battersea Power Station and red phone box fame, that was his grandson Giles. But still.
We then walked close by Chatsworth House. (I took some pictures of it, but they're not very interesting.)
Caudwell's Mill
Our destination (not surprising if you know my brother) was a tearoom; to be specific, a rather nice one attached to Caudwell's Mill, which is a working watermill - sort of.
After refreshments, we went to look around the mill. It's broken at the moment, I forget the details but they aren't milling flour; however, the smaller side-channel converted to hydroelectricity (around 10kW when I looked at the meter) was powering the lights, and in most of the rest of the mill, they had things still spinning round and such anyway. A really interesting little museum.
That's it! A fun mill, though, worth a visit if you're in the area.