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Darley Dale, also known simply as '''Darley''', is a Town in Derbyshire , England , with a population of around 6,000 people. It lies north of Matlock , on the River Derwent and the A6 Road . HISTORY A Benedictine Abbey was built here under the reign of Henry 1 Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 in the twelfth century. The town grew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the Lead Mining and Smelting industries. It is also a Commuter Town for workers in Matlock. Between Darley Dale and Matlock is the Cawdor Quarry which supplied stone for Hyde Park Corner and the Thames Embankment in London . FAMOUS PEOPLE Famous people associated with Darley Dale include
NOTABLE BUILDINGS AND ATTRACTIONS Notable buildings in the town include its Fourteenth Century Parish Church St. Helens, with a yew tree which is thought to be two thousand years old. The south transept has a stained glass window by Burne-Jones and William Morris . Other attractions include the Peak Rail railway which runs from Rowsley South to Matlock via a station at Darley Dale and the Whitworth Park, a large park located next to the railway. It was the winner of the 2003 Britain In Bloom , in the category of 'Large Village'. There is a bi-annual Arts Festival , the Darley Dale Arts Festival, held in July in odd-numbered years. The bi-annual Arts Festival In nearby Two Dales, Ladygrove Mill was built for spinning Cotton by Abraham Flint, but converted to Flax spinning in 1789 by Daniel Dalkeyne. It was expanded by his sons, Edward and James, who built a series of three dams on the Sydnope Valley rising to 96 feet. To cope with the water pressure, they invented a revolutionary water-pressure "disc engine", which they patented in 1830. The mills and equipment have virtually disappeared but the remains of the dams can still be seen. Finally, at the bottom of Station Road lies Darley Dale Railway Station . Although national rail services ceased in the 1960s, the station has been for over 15 years occupied by the railway and heritage preservation group Peak Rail . From here, a heritage steam service operates south to Matlock and north to Rowsley South , with a route distance of approximately five miles. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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