Search Results

One of the focal points of the scattered village of Winster, the Brown Horse is a well-known local hostelry.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, are an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired by the National Trust in the Peak District, in 1906.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

The 'standard' related to the standard measuring dish for lead, for Winster in its heyday was a lead mining village, and almost every family had someone employed in the industry.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired, in 1906, in the Peak District by the National Trust.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

The village of Winster is one of the most complete 18th-century villages in Derbyshire, founded on the wealth won from the numerous lead mines which still pit the fields which surround it.

Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border. John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial.

The route leaves Newark and heads six miles west to the small and delightful town of Southwell, whose minster church had been founded by the Archbishop of York before AD956.

The abbey, the oldest building in Minster, is to be found at the lower end of the village.

This peaceful view of Minster shows its pleasant old houses. Minster has the dubious claim to fame of being the site of the world's first fatal motor-car accident.

This superb minster church was founded before 956; the present church was started in 1108 by the Archbishop of York, and the west towers were completed by about 1150.

Church House was built in the High Street next to the minster in 1906 at a cost of £2,870 14s 11d. It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury.

In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.

Minster was no exception, as we can see in this photograph.

The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465.These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.

It is dedicated to the former abbess of Minster, and in the earliest records Tenterden was part of the manor of Minster-in-Thanet.

The splendid Minster dominates the town of Wimborne, though there are many other buildings worth seeking out.

Sturminster Newton was only ever a 'Minster' town in the sense that it was granted to Glastonbury Abbey by King Edmund Ironsides.

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.