A wealthy Manchester merchant had a stunning hall created in a Derbyshire valley but it all looks very different now, as Steve Brown reports
TO MANY DERBYSHIRE FOLK, the Goyt Valley remains one of the most popular locations for anything from an energetic moorland walk to a Sunday afternoon stroll. The graceful sails of yachts and dinghies punctuate the rippled surface of Errwood Reservoir, the forests are threaded by enticing paths and the surrounding hills are coloured by the greens and browns of the grasses under ever-shifting skies…