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| Calver was once a centre for cotton spinning, and the fine 7-storey mill, which functioned as a mill from 1785 to 1920, still stands on the Derwent to the East of the main village at Calver Bridge just off the A623. It is a rather grim-looking place and once doubled as Colditz in a film about the prisoner of war camp. It has since been converted to flats.
Calver village is centred around the Derwent Water Arms, a hundred metres off the other side of the main road. It has some nice old houses, plus a lot of new ones, for this is now quite a fashionable place to live.
Calver Sough lies just to the north of Calver village, near the traffic lights where the Bakewell to Grindleford Road crosses the A623. The spot obtains its name from the 'sough' or mine drainage canal which emerges just near here. It was built to drain the lead mines on the edge behind, and there are a number of similar soughs nearby, the best known of which is Stoke Sough, to the north of Calver. This emerges on private land belonging to Stoke House (now a hotel) and a bathhouse was constructed over the sough exit.
Calver Sough has a pub and a branch of Outside, the outdoor equipment shop. |
Nearby Places of Interest| Chatsworth House and Park | Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. Home of the Dukes of Devonshire, the Cavendish Family. Build by Bess of Hardwick. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisioned here. The greatest house of the region and set in a large park. | | Eyam Hall | Eyam Hall is a fine 17th Century Hall in the Plague village of Eyam, Hope Valley, which is still in the hands of its original builders, the Wright Family. It is open to the public and also has a small set of craft workshops attached. | | Eyam Museum and Plague Village | Eyam Museum and the Plague Village, Eyam, give a history of the tragic 1665-6 visit of the Bubonic Plague to this village in the Derbyshire Peak District. | | Longshaw Estate and Country Park | The Longshaw Estate covers Grindleford, Millstone and Bole Hill, Hope Valley, Derbyshire. Once the shooting estate of the Dukes of Rutland, now owned by the National Trust. |
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