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Longdendale Tales

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A 28-part podcast series exploring the often forgotten stories of the Longdendale valley - past and present. Clare Savory rediscovers Crowden, Woodhead, Tintwistle, Hadfield and the many reservoirs running along the Longdendale Trail, Trans Pennine and Pennine ways. This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates and the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Beggin ...
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Back in March (episode 8), Clare Savory visited an almost forgotten chapel on the hillside between Woodhead and Crowden... Now a group of volunteers from across the Longdendale valley (and beyond) have rescued St James' Church. In this special Christmas episode, Clare invites Longdendale Tales listeners in for a sneak peek of the first concert at t…
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As the series draws to a close, Clare Savory follows an old path underneath the Longdendale Trail, where there’s another railway tunnel marked ‘The Old House’. She ponders over words Robert Macfarlane shared about the origins of paths and “the secrets they keep of adventures, meetings and departures”. Clare walks from one end of the tunnel to the o…
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It’s the final instalment of the bard of Longdendale’s story about a group of day trippers (and their plentiful hamper) travelling the region in June 1867. Actress Cordelia Howard completes the tale of the party’s return journey from Crowden to Manchester. The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings prog…
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Nanny Greenteeth and Nell Nettlespike, Baron de Morland and Sir Mottram De Mossland…some of the characters presented in the myths and legends about the Longdendale Valley. In particular, they feature in many of the explanations of how a hairpin along Woodhead Head earned the title ‘devil’s elbow’. Walking from The Peels Arms in Padfield to Peak Naz…
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Whilst recording this podcast series, Clare Savory met retired-clergy-now-fellow-Hadfield-ers Janet Lees and Bob Warwicker. As passionate long-distance walkers, they’ve explored many of the corners and paths of the Longdendale Trail (and much of the country by foot). During lockdown their observational rambles inspired their prayers to fall in the …
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From the Bulls Head in Tintwistle to Arnfield Farm; Clare Savory walks along the boundary of the Peak District National Park with Cora Glasser and David Ball of Glassball Studio. Their latest project, GUIDEline, explores the nature of the park’s boundary, its history and how it was formed from Glossop to Diggle. Together they share some of the work…
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Enjoy a windy walk with Clare Savory along the northern path of Torside Reservoir; taking time to notice the colours, the patterns, shapes and lines through an artists’ lens. Local painter Liz Armstrong from Glossop Art Society offers tips to get started sketching when out on your walks. Plus, they share the story behind the idea of open air painti…
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From wool to cotton; Kate Raine paints a picture of how the area surrounding Bottoms Reservoir looked before and during the building of the reservoirs. Including Crowden Bleach Works, Bottoms Lodge and the mystery behind Torside Paper Mill…was it actually a pub?! And - what connects Rhodeswood Reservoir with the Victoria Hall in Glossop? Spoiler al…
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Sped up, slowed down, turned round and round - today’s Sunday soundscape is recorded walking along Crowden weir. Enjoy listening to the sound of the gushing fast flowing stream as Clare Savory turns in circles, allowing the water to move all around us. (Best listened wearing headphones!) The week’s conversations about adopting a sense of play with …
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The party has opened and indulged in the hamper’s delights, what next for Thomas Barlow’s day-trippers enjoying a wet and wild summer’s day out in Woodhead? Cordelia Howard provides the third instalment of ‘A Picnic At Woodhead’. The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ro…
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Listen closely as the year 6 pupils of Parochial Primary School in Ashton Under Lyne find their feet walking in wellies along Crowden Brook! Peak District National Park community ranger/oracle Matt Ross returns to the podcast to tell us how he inspires the future generation using stories of stoneflies and nymphs. This episode includes a cringe wort…
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Helen Thornhill from Move More Glossop, a community partnership project led by The Bureau, encourages more of us to get fit by building activity into our everyday life. Clare Savory and Helen take a popular loop around Bottoms Reservoir to talk about who, why and how she helps people get started - no matter their mobility. Plus, they bump into a lo…
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Following the medieval trackway from Padfield towards Deep Clough, archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green and Clare Savory sift through the stone mason markings in the tunnels under the Longdendale Trail, as well as spotting two apotropaic markings on a bridge: “two inverted V’s”. These religious markings are believed to have been used to ward off evil o…
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8 air crashes; 36 people killed, 2 survivors...That's just in and around the area surrounding Bleaklow moor between the years 1939 and 1956. Yet most people have only heard of (and visited) the site where the Bleaklow Bomber met its fate - a US Air Force Boeing B29A Superfortress that crashed near Higher Shelf Stones in 1948. Mountain leader Alan C…
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Glossop Chronicle journalist David Jones walks from Hadfield Train Station along the Longdendale Trail recalling some of the stories he reported for the local newspaper. From the opening of the trail, to walking the Woodhead train line tunnels to the many paranormal sightings in and around the valley… plus, rowdy football fans and a tale about Dick…
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For this week’s Sunday Soundscape, we walk beside an almost silent Woodhead Pass - usually filled with the deafening sound of lorries and cars driving all day and all night. But today, with 7 inches of snow, the area surrounding Rhodeswood Reservoir and Didsbury Intake was filled with nothing but the sounds of long tailed tits, blue tits and great …
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In the second of four storytelling episodes, actress Cordelia Howard continues reading the bard of Longdendale’s retelling of a wild day trip to Woodhead with friends. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk for more information about our digital map and 28 part walking podcast series. This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairi…
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It’s the day after the snow drifts arrived across Glossopdale, and Clare is back out walking the Longdendale Trail in its thick snow covered paths. Along her way she recalls some of the poetry written by former Longdendale stompers: Ammon Wrigley, Thomas Barlow, Thomas Middleton and Ralph Bernard Robinson. Find more of their poetry, and photos of h…
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The Sidebottoms, Platts, Thornleys & Turners were big players in the industrial history of Hadfield and the surrounding area. From Station Mill, to Valehouse Mill to Waterside; Kate Raine from the Glossop Heritage Trust digs into what we know about the who, what and where of the cotton mills of yesteryear. Read more of Kate’s research here: https:/…
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Medieval track ways, benchmarks, moles and mudlarking…A walk with archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green is always educational and entertaining. (And apparently we need more jingles for this podcast…) This time we’re walking from the Palantine pub in Hadfield, via Lambgates to Roughfields - keeping our eye out for interesting stone markings, bits of pott…
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When Alan Clark’s mum gave him a copy of Ron Collier’s book about the Dark Peak air crashes as a boy, little did she know she’d be planting a seed that would turn into a lifetime obsession. These days, Alan’s a mountain leader, a published author and runs guided walks investigating the why and what’s left of plane wrecks in present day. On this epi…
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Once upon a time a King’s jeweller and former Lord Mayor of London left in his will a pot of money to build a chapel on the valley near Crowden back in 1487. Amazingly, a version of that chapel still stands a little further down the hill today. But it’s fallen out of use. Clare walks with Richard and Meriel, members of Crowden and Woodhead Resident…
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It’s said that the River Etherow is born where Far Small Clough and Salter’s Brook adjoin in a three way meet. Clare Savory ventures beyond the Woodhead Tunnels to find the river’s supposed source. With her copy of ‘The Living Mountain’ by Nan Shepherd tucked under her arm, she invites you to listen closer to the water - in our first of four sounds…
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In the first of four storytelling episodes, actress Cordelia Howard reads Thomas Barlow’s tale of an unforgettable visit to the Longdendale valley via train…on a soggy June day in 1867. Remembered by his peers as ‘the bard of Longdendale’, Barlow was a calico printer working for Edmund Potter in Dinting, a prominent member of the Co-operative socie…
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From coffee shop to church, weavers cottages to an old turnpike road; a mooch about Tintwistle via Bottoms Reservoir with (almost) local Billy Wardle turns out to be a fruitful jaunt. Our thanks to Beth the cleaner at Tintwistle United Reformed Church for her surprise cameo appearance! Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk for more information about our dig…
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Mention the word 'traffic' in Glossop, Hadfield or Tintwistle and you’ll likely have your wrist slapped. These days the Woodhead Pass is a busy pass through route for lorries, bikers and cars alike. But, according to Roger Hargreaves from Glossop Heritage Trust, Longdendale has always been popular with travellers. From the turnpikes to the salt pat…
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99 years ago Ethel Haythornthwaite founded what has now become the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s Peak District and South Yorkshire branch. Yet, unlike the Kinder Mass Trespass, very little is known about her and the role she played in protecting green areas - like Longdendale - from development back in the 1900s. Today Clare Savory walks alon…
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Engine sheds, barn owls to hydro power… Enjoy a walk from the Longdendale Environmental Centre to the Z shaped path where Valehouse dam meets Rhodeswood Reservoir, on the side of the Woodhead Pass. Clare Savory walks with Matt Ross, Communities & Young People Ranger, Peak District National Park Authority to discuss what the park’s role is, and how …
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When Clare Savory moved from Manchester to Hadfield just before lockdown little did she know her new back garden would become an outdoor classroom offering hours of entertainment. Frankly, curiosity should be her middle name. She brings to a close a 6 month pilot project researching the people’s stories, music and poetry of the Longdendale area wit…
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