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Meerbrook (grid
reference SJ989609) is a
small village in
North Staffordshire, on the
River Churnet at the edge of the Peak
District National Park. It...
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September since 1996,
which raises money for
local charities. The
village of
Meerbrook in
Staffordshire holds an
annual Scarecrow Festival during the
month of...
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River Dove 13.8 °C (56.8 °F)
Bradwell Spring 12.4 °C (54.3 °F) Crich,
Meerbrook Sough,
Leashaw Farm 17 °C (63 °F) Crich,
Ridgeway Sough, Whatstandwell...
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towards the end of the 19th century. Some
soughs were very extensive.
Meerbrook sough is over four
miles in length.
Digging such long
tunnels took a long...
- May 1959 and was
completed in 1963. Nine
properties in the
village of
Meerbrook were
flooded by the
extended reservoir,
including The
Fountain Inn. A...
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water users in a
number of
legal cases. In 1772, however, a new sough,
Meerbrook Sough, had been
started nearby, some 30m
lower than
Cromford Sough. By...
- In 1846 the
mining beneath Wirksworth had
reached such a
depth that
Meerbrook Sough was built,
draining into the
Derwent near Whatstandwell,
which deprived...
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railway tracks from
Ravenstor railway station,
where the
Meerbrook Sough Mine area lies. The
Meerbrook Sough drained water from the
nearby quarries and led...
- ****esworth are to the west and east. The
civil parish includes the
village of
Meerbrook, the
Roaches (a
rocky ridge in the north-east) and most of ****esworth...
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Dorothy Margaret Stuart, née
Browne (1889,
Meerbrook,
Staffordshire – 14
September 1963) was a
British poet and writer. In 1924 she won a
silver medal...
