Two abandoned villages deliberately flooded in 1943 to make way for the Ladybower reservoir have been revealed by low water levels. Derwent and Ashopton, in Derbyshire, were sacrificed to serve the ...
In 2018, a hot, dry summer descended on the English Midlands, and as the waters of the Ladybower Reservoir fell, the lost village of Derwent emerged. It was all gone. The lanes of gritstone cottages, ...
THE current low water levels at Ladybower Reservoir have revealed the remains of two abandoned villages that were deliberately flooded in the 1940s. The villages of Derwent and Ashopton were abandoned ...
In the Peak District between Manchester and Sheffield lie two once-thriving villages that were purposely drowned during the construction of a reservoir. The Derbyshire villages of Ashopton and Derwent ...
A 'lost' village which has re-emerged due to low water levels has been vandalised. The town of Derwent in Derbyshire was purposely flooded by the Ladybower Reservoir between 1935 and 1943. Thousands ...
The eerie remains of a lost village submerged underwater in the 1940s have been making a ghostly reappearance when the weather is particularly hot and dry. The slowly rotting ruins of buildings that ...
The worst drought for 40 years meant the sunken village of Derwent, near Sheffield re-emerged from the waters of the Ladybower Dam, as water levels dropped to new lows. The village first disappeared ...
Henry Bodkin is The Telegraph’s Jerusalem Correspondent, based in Israel. He has reported on the Israel-Hamas war, terrorism, Israeli politics, life in the Palestinian territories and Middle East ...
Two abandoned villages deliberately flooded in 1943 to make way for the Ladybower reservoir have been revealed by low water levels. Derwent and Ashopton, in Derbyshire, were sacrificed to serve the ...
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