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Forth Bridge

Inverkeithing, Scotland

Forth Bridge

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

Foxton Locks

Foxton, England

Foxton Locks

The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.

Sunset on Stanage Edge

Derbyshire, England

Stanage Edge

This iconic Peak District ridge was once one of the busiest roads in medieval Britain.

Hall Hill Troughs.

Eyam, England

Hall Hill Troughs

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The Riley Graves

Eyam, England

Eyam Plague Village Museum

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

The Crazy Pinnacle.

Hope Valley, England

The Crazy Pinnacle

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillsideĀ and no one is quite sure how it got there.

the nearby St Ann's well

Buxton, England

The Crescent

A historic Georgian building and warm springs.

Devonshire Dome , external view.

Buxton, England

The Devonshire Dome

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Solomon's Temple

Buxton, England

Solomon's Temple

This landmark Victorian folly rewards visitors with spectacular views over the Peak District.

Quarry waters dyed black

Buxton, England

Blue Lagoon of Buxton

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Arbor Low Stone Circle

Derby, England

Arbor Low Stone Circle

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

Giddy Edge Path

Matlock Bath, England

Giddy Edge Path

This precipitous pathway with its wrought iron handrail was created by the Victorians as a tourist attraction.

View from inside Glasgow tram

Town End, England

Crich Tramway Village

A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.

Crich Stand, the War Memorial of the Sherwood Foresters.

Crich, England

Crich Stand

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Moot Hall

Wirksworth, England

Moot Hall

This unique medieval court deals solely with the lead mining laws in two small areas of Derbyshire.

water sources

Cromford, England

Cromford Mill

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

Jacqard looms which used a card reader for automated pattern weaving

Matlock Bath, England

Masson Mill

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

Ice cream on North Parade in Matlock Bath.

Matlock Bath, England

Matlock Bath

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

Earl Grey Tower

Stanton Lees, England

Earl Grey Tower

This tower was constructed to commemorate the man who helped bring true democracy to the United Kingdom.

The Nine Ladies.

Stanton Lees, England

Nine Ladies Stone Circle

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

The South Front and the South Lawn with the Seahorse Fountain. The exterior steps are a 19th century replacement for the original horseshoe shaped steps. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bakewell, England

Chatsworth House

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Shot at Dawn Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Alrewas, England

'Shot at Dawn' at the National Memorial Arboretum

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

Bevin Boys Memorial.

Burton-on-Trent, England

Bevin Boys Memorial

A long-overdue monument to theĀ forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

The causeway part of the bridge over the floodplain and marshes

Derby, England

Swarkestone Bridge

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

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