David Moore, chairman of Chesterfield & NE Derbyshire Ramblers, is leading a walk to a local monument marking the man who beat Napoleon at Waterloo 200 years ago this month. Here he explains why – and reveals the remarkable Baslow man behind the monument, who received royal recognition for his work.
BASLOW EDGE is a regular route for many walkers, and in this bicentenary year of Waterloo, many may wonder how it acquired a Wellington Monument – in commemoration of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington…