The Submerged Village of Derwent (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Between 1935 and 1945 a large dam was built across the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. As a result, the picturesque villages of Derwent and Ashopton were submerged. This video shows the remains of Derwent village in January 1996 during a period of drought.
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thank you for really good upload , I remember driving past reservoir as a child and been told they was a village submerged there and for some reason it scared the hell out of me lol , but as I got older I was always curious what the village looked like before and after and this helped
Many thanks for the memory!
Excellent piece of film you have there and thanks for sharing it. Call it progress but I still find it upsetting to do that to a picturesque village especially the demolition of the church. Sad but Derwent is not the only village lost to "progress".
+Jeffrey Rollings
Many thanks for your kind remarks. Yes, progress has a lot to answer for.
It's so eery how you can see the paths! The stone from the church was so interesting! Thank you for a great video!
Good to hear that you enjoyed the video. Yes, it was strange to walk along those paths.
Thanks for taking the time to post this video, this stuff is a really fascinating glimpse into the past before progress swallowed its future.
Im from Chesterfield and as a lad we'd talk about this, I remeber seeing parts during the dry spell and wondering if Id ever find out more, thanks so much this has made my day!
I live just a few miles away over the snake pass in glossop. I find films like this so fascinating, thanks for uploading and sharing with us all 😊
Many thanks - glad you enjoyed it!
I've no special qualifications in archaeology, but I'm very interested in the subject. Thank you for your kind comments - glad you enjoyed the video!
Really interesting. My teenage daughter enjoyed watching that as well. Thanks for posting
Good to hear that you both enjoyed it - many thanks!
Many thanks - good to hear that you enjoyed it.
I remember this. It was fascinating walking around the remains of the old village and hall.
+JasonJason210
It's a unique experience! Thanks for your memory.
I did an nvq out there back in 2008/9 n remember being told by the tutor about the tower sticking out if the water during a drought.
Must have been quite a sight - sadly it doesn't happen any more since being demolished.
Nice video man, I didn't know there was a submerged village there before.
Many thanks!
I saw a picture of the church tower sticking out the water and it was really eerie. They should've left it there. Shame about the villages though, they looked so pretty. Really enjoyed your video. :-D
I understand that the church was demolished for health and safety reasons. Good to hear that you enjoyed the video - many thanks for your comments!
I know what you mean. I always wanted to know what was down there under the water, and it was great when the chance came to actually see it all and wander through the remains. Good to hear that you enjoyed the video.
Fabulous work there. Just a shame they didn't take more pictures of the doomed area before the dam was built.
+David Smith Many thanks. Worth looking at the book mentioned at the end of the video, if you've not seen it already.
Many thanks - I've just been looking at your excellent video of the bell spillway - makes me shiver to think about going in there!!
Great to hear your comment - many thanks!
Fantastic piece of film. Thanks for uploading 👍🏻
Many thanks!
"Did you ever look out over a lake and wonder whats buried underneath it?, man that's about as buried as you can get"
- Burt Reynolds -
Great video , Thanks
Thank you!
Awesome footage thanks for sharing X
Great to hear that you enjoyed it - many thanks
@mikeymishka1
Many thanks for your positive comments. Apparently, the Vicar of Derwent was allowed to stay in the vicarage, at the water's edge, until he died in 1945. Many of the inhabitants moved into the Water Board's specially-built housing at Yorkshire Bridge, some 3.5 miles away. Others went to various locations in the High Peak. Also, the 284 people buried in the church grounds were moved and re-buried in a special extension to Bamford churchyard. As you say, very sad....
Fascinating video. I love history and have only just learnt about Derwent. Think it's very sad that they had to do this. All that history lost. Especially sad to see the church in ruins.
Good to hear that you enjoyed the video. It was all in the name of progress, but it certainly makes you think when you walk through those ruins.
@wicksy68
Great to have your encouraging comments and also your video response concerning Mardale Green. I didn't know about this sunken village until now - yet another sacrifice to progress....
I used to play among the ruins of Derwent when the water was low. I well remember the church tower sticking out of the water and my youthful anger when it was demolished (by the Army, I believe) to deter swimmers.
Thanks very much for the memory. We're very lucky to have had the opportunity of seeing the remains of the village.
@LordGoatAlmighty
Many thanks - glad you enjoyed it. TH-cam is a big place!
wow so glad you caught this on film... great upload.
Fascinating, thanks. Always thought the church remained standing as seem to remember TV crews showing it back in summer '74. Must have been a different reservoir.
Many thanks - apparently the church tower was demolished on 15 December 1947.
Steven Andrews I stayed with my nana who lived in Sheffield in the summer of '76. I seem to remember her showing me a photo of the reservoir in the Sheffield Star, with the steeple peeping out of it. She told me about the villages and the steeple was still standing beneath the water. It was a ruddy hot summer remember and she reckoned that the church was once again poking up, because the waters had dried up. Then I learned years later, as jayceebee444 stated that the church had been demolished years ago. Which means that my nana either got it massively wrong, or somewhere along the way I've got false memories. Mind you, I was only 7 or 8 at the time. Fascinating stuff, though all the same.
Yes Annie i must have been told the same tale by my Grandma as she used to get the Sheffield Star delivered. Very odd indeed.
Annie Goddard The church tower was definitely not standing in 76. That was the year I was born and my mum often talks about how in the drought of that summer she walked on the bottom of the dry reservoir. She has a photograph of herself stood by the remains of the church looking rather warm and pregnant ahah! The tower is not there. I can only assume the photo in the newspaper was showing the church during an earlier warm spell or perhaps during the flooding.
This video is fantastic thanks for taking the time to educate others thanks.
Many thanks - good to have your encouraging comments!
Very interesting video.I grew up close to Rutland Water that flooded Lower and Middle Hambleton,though I think all traces of the pretty farms and thatched cottages were removed.
Many thanks, and also for your mention of Rutland Water. It encouraged me to find the account at www.rutlandhistory.org/HRW/chapter-021 which is fascinating to read.
@@jayceebee444 The link is to the web version of a fascinating and very thorough study of the area submerged . It is also in hardback book form and I managed to get one from ebay .I remember as a boy just after the reservoir filled going to the edge near the Old Hall and there was an old lady there looking out at the water who my Mother chatted to and said she had lived in one of the submerged cottages. A small cul de sac of bungalows had been built nearby for some of those displaced. I became a bit obsessed by submerged villages for a time !
@@robertsmith5970 Yes - I was really impressed by the work which had been put into the account, and I know what you mean by being obsessed with submerged villages!
Fascinating. How did I not know about this before now.
Many thanks - it's great to have TH-cam to do this sort of thing.
thank you for sharing this footage.
Good to hear that you enjoyed it!
Yes - there was a graveyard. In all, the remains of 285 people were removed and re-interred in nearby Bamford Churchyard.
Many thanks! I was lucky to be there at the time.
I understand that most of the buildings were demolished before the village was submerged, although the church spire was allowed to remain. It was visible above the water until it, too, was demolished in 1947.
Part of the end wall of my bungalow is apparently built from stone from the village when it was exposed in 1976!
Many thanks!
What a fantastic video ! Many thanks Jayeebee444 for the upload :-)
@wheater5
That's a pretty special bit of wall you've got there!
Really great video, wish I knew more about this subject. Was just wondering how do you know so much about the layout of the village? Thanks for uploading.
Many thanks for your kind comments. All my information was obtained from the "Silent Valley" books by Vic Hallam, which include a useful map.
Thanks very much, I will check it out
@ddowd
The 284 people buried in the church grounds were moved and re-buried in a special extension to Bamford churchyard. The full story is in the books listed at the end of the video. Many thanks for your interest.
How’s the reservoir working out? Not done for flood control, would indicate folks are using too much water. Or has there been a big time lack of rain?
These events don't happen very often and are usually due to weather conditions, although water management could be improved to help the situation.
great video
Were the buildings demolished before the village was submerged.
Regret that I replied under the "John B" signature. Reply was: Great to hear your comment - many thanks!
@chendaforest
Many thanks for your comments. It must have been traumatic for the inhabitants, especially since the environment seemed so idyllic at the time. Sadly, as you say, someone often has to make a sacrifice for the betterment of others.
Have you studied archaeology at all? You have to seem have a good eye for it and used the sources of old ordnance survey maps and photographs effectively. Thanks for sharing this footage of the ruins. :)
Have you been this year jayceebee444? We visited Sunday and it's all visible again. Would be great to do a follow up video 20 years later?
Nice idea - and a chance to re-do it in HD! Regret that I just don't have the opportunity at present........
Sorry - confused with this new TH-cam set-up. I just replied to you with the "John B" signature. Here's the reply using the name associated with the site:
I know what you mean. I always wanted to know what was down there under the water, and it was great when the chance came to actually see it all and wander through the remains. Good to hear that you enjoyed the video.
What happened to the bodies in the graveyard? any ideas
This is the best proof I've seen that the mud flood can't be a water flood event...
One great feature,,,,the film and narration excellent work,,,,,,,but surly listed buildings are supposed to be untouched,,,,please keep such film clips coming 👍
OK - and many thanks for your comments
@Pricklyghost106
Thanks!
If there was a church there, then it's reasonable to suppose that it had its own cemetery, what happened to the bodies, were they re-intered elsewhere?
The 284 people buried in the church grounds were moved and re-buried in a special extension to Bamford churchyard. The full story is in the books listed at the end of the video. Many thanks for your interest.
Thanks for that - I've heard of this happening elsewhere, a part of me supposed that there would be a re-burial elsewhere but it's always good to get it confirmed.
was there a graveyard at the church if so what happened to the ppl buried ?
is it possible to dive to the village as it is in a reservoir?
Sorry - I'm not sure what the official line is on this.
This will be more than thirty years ago now, and I may be mistaken about this, but I used to know someone who joined a sub-aqua club, and I seem to recall that on one occasion this is what they did. I remember him saying that they managed to identify a street or two, and the remains of a few low walls. and that was about it.
you have any map? postcode where you start?
Thanks for your enquiry. The latitude-longitude co-ordinates are 53°23'35.9"N 1°43'29.0"W
at first i thought the foundation stone was a grave stone.
@Nickis2qt2bstr8
Glad it brought some memories back!
Yes - progress for most, but not for all..........
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Many thanks - only just seen this post. I'd be happy for this to happen.
Go metal detecting!
MrDisgruntledAmerica that’s my first thought!!!