Barbrook 1 (Dark peak)
Its good to see plenty of reference to Barbrook (*one) on this site. It has to be one of the most beautiful small circles in the north of England.
I recall my first trip up to Barbrook(1994); it being one of the coldest days of winter some years ago... After tottering around (feeling) somewhat aimlessly misguided with the O/S range-finder map, its a great place to stumble upon; with a mild suprise of ever having found it.
Just adjacent to the (@ the time very icy pathway); I feel Barbrook lies in a great position... Similar vista to the also hidden (but much grander) nearby temple of Arbor low. I always (upon return here) find it very thought provoking as to, the people that used this site; it always seems more open to the elements than many other places... then again, it is always winter when I visit somehow!
I usually always follow up a trip to this site with an amble over the Burbage brook estate, and up to Higger Tor; which also just has to hold some significance (prehistoric > Iron ages?)
Yep, a trip-ette up to the peaks is a great day out; not forgetting Mam Tor, Thors cave, The Nine ladies circle on Stanton moor... I have never quite made it to Robin hoods stride or Kits coty house... maybe next time around...
Mooncat. x
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Beeby Tub, henge & Holy well. Leicestershire
Although now studying at Oxford as a mature student (30's), i originate from Leicestershire. This area is not known for richness in prehistoric monuments, but has the mighty Iron age Hill fort of Borough near at hand to Beeby. I have found some evidence which sugests that the site of the now defunct Anglican church of (all Saints) & its infamous unfinished spire (The Tub), occupies a much older site.
It is thought that the church occupies a henge monument, and there is a holy well adjacent to the church. Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
Within a range of several miles is the Bronze-age trackway(the Ridgemere), running for 5-6 miles between Tilton on the hill > Near: Syston; here stands a singular standing stone known locally as 'The Moody-Bush' stone, also referred to as Moade stone. I recall reading some 'idealogy' that this is a marker for some manoral court of the 'Goscote Hundred', or that it possibly marks a lost village of Merton or Mereton??
Again several miles east, lies the village of Queniborough, which yards from the church lie two recumbant stones. So this little part of Leicestershire has more than obviously realised in academic texts.
If anybody has any ideas in relation to this, please e-mail me. [email protected]
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I hail from darkest Leicestershire!! Although I have now lived in both Worcester & Walsall for the last 7 years. I work in A&E; and now doing a BSc in Oxford (nursing, but never mind)
I am really into Art: the pre-raphaelites (esp Rossetti), Aesthetic movement,Baroque & Rococco n' German Symbolist paintings (franz von stuck etc..)
Literature: mostly English Modernist, (Forster, Greene, Woolf) some contemporary, but have really enjoyed French 20th cent: Genet, Gide, Rimbaud, verlaine, Mallarm'e etc..
Architecture: love hawksmoor, Wren, Vanburgh, Soane & Gibbs etc...
I'm a massive Julian Cope fan, and thus got interested in Pre-historical sites and their magick. Fave sites include:The Ridgeway Chalk Downs (White-horse hill), Arbor Low (Derbys)
Music is a passion: all sorts, but love old Indie, New-wave, goth, Kate Bush, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey & even some folkie stuff!!
Can somebody inform 'KillingJoker' (Ian) that he knows me from pissed-up days @ Leicester's Fan-club... Mike.
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