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Ballidon

You can see a well-preserved deserted medieval village and open fields at Ballidon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of just 79 souls, but in medieval times this was a thriving community. It dates originally from the Norman period, but it was so heavily restored in 1882 that most Norman details have been obliterated. There are four rather grand 17th-century farms, and the Chapel of All Saints stands isolated in a field.

Overshadowed by its gigantic limestone quarry, the legacy of this tiny hamlet’s days as a robust medieval village remain in the numerous earthworks, lynchets and evidence of ridge-and-furrow cultivation in its fields. One-and-a-half miles north is Minning Low, one of the most impressive Bronze Age chambered tombs. It was the best discovery of its kind in Derbyshire at the time.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of the Peak District and Derbyshire

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the Heart of England

This guidebook covers Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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