. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . We creep roundsome jutting rocks, and keeping the river to ourleft, wander up the Dale. A few minutes forwardand we notice that the river bends away to thewest; we follow through a wicket gate and someprivate grounds, and soon emerge from the trees ^-^ into all the beauty of Chee Vale itself At the end of tliis part of the Dalewe cross over the river by a rude bridge, and are now just below the rail-way viaduct that carries amidst these lonely beauties one of the worldshighways. W
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . We creep roundsome jutting rocks, and keeping the river to ourleft, wander up the Dale. A few minutes forwardand we notice that the river bends away to thewest; we follow through a wicket gate and someprivate grounds, and soon emerge from the trees ^-^ into all the beauty of Chee Vale itself At the end of tliis part of the Dalewe cross over the river by a rude bridge, and are now just below the rail-way viaduct that carries amidst these lonely beauties one of the worldshighways. We wind our way up a steep path a few inches wide, covered inwith wood, and then down to the right again we cross the stream, andfollow a path close by the waters edge overhung with rocks, until in a fewminutes we go under another viaduct. Still we follow tlie Dale to Black-well, cross the lepping stones, take a footpath through a plantation thatborders the side of the river, leave it again at the foot of Topley Pike,and are on the high road through a lovely valley to Buxton. V3^- -f^ ^gK3^^r:^r7?^^-^::, ^M^. \jf!^>C tOPLEY~Pn /^^(g: Ll)DCH^^^^2^^ r .j^ i BUXTON. Buxton, one of the most pleasant and fashionable of English spas,is also one of the oldest in the kingdom. Two principal Roman roadshere intersected one another, and a Roman bath has been found. Afterthe departure of the Romans from Britain the baths of Buxton seem to havebeen deserted, but in the fifteenth and sixteeath centuries the curative pro-perties of the waters are said to have been held in repute, the Chapel ofSt. Anne, the tutelary saint, being at that time hung round with the crutchesof those who had been cured. In 1573, Mary Queen of Scots, then sutferingfrom chronic rheumatism and neuralgic pains, repaired to Buxton for thebenefit of the waters, accompanied by the Earl of Shrewsbury and hisCountess—the celebrated Bess of Hardwicke—and the Queen testified tothe incredible benefit she received. The rep
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