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		<title>The Portway in paint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following Lindsey Hambleton&#8217;s recent exhibition of her Portway paintings, a catalogue of the entire collection is now available online at: http://www.lindseyhambleton.co.uk/portwaycatalogue.htm This allows you to follow the entire route from the Hemlock Stone to Mam Tor in paintings, which reflect the various seasons in which she worked, from high summer to the snows of winter 08-09.

 
 
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		<title>Lawrence &amp; the Hemlock Stone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eastwood author D. H. Lawrence, in his semi-autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, describes a visit to the Hemlock Stone on a Good Friday early in the 20th century. The site was then very much a local attraction:
They came to the Hemlock Stone at dinner-time. Its field was crowded with folk from Nottingham and Ilkeston. They had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Portway Walk: How long does it take?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of five fairly experienced (i.e. elderly) walkers set off from the Hemlock Stone on Friday 26th September. We made a leisurely start but soon realised that more determined progress was needed. The sun broke through the mist by lunchtime and we reached the Holly Bush pub at Makeney by 4.30, where we decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portway writing competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write a story or article linked to the Derbyshire Portway and win a copy of the book.
The winning monthly entry will be published in the Portway Stories section of the website.
Read the first story, Derwent Crossing, there now. Entries should be no more than 1500 words and must be sent as an email attachment to: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Roman road to Wirksworth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidence for a possible Roman road between Little Chester (Derby) and Wirksworth is presented at this website: http://www.conferencesdirect.co.uk/clacton/The%20Ridge-way.pdf
Parts of the route eg between the Chevin and Alport Height are similar to the Portway, but as the research is based on the quest for an engineered (Roman) road surface it is clearly different from a prehistoric routeway, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happenings at the Hemlock Stone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years the Hemlock Stone, an impressive sandstone column on the fringes of Nottingham, has been virtually ignored by historians, although a subject of much interest and speculation to Victorians, who developed some fanciful speculation of links with Druids.
In The Derbyshire Portway it is seen as a possible routemark on the south-eastern section of [...]]]></description>
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