A Tapestry Called England

“I travelled far across this country | Northumberland to the Southern Downs | I wandered up the rolling Humber | And down the Thames to London Town | Countless lives were lived and lingered | In the Cotswolds and the Fells | And left a tapestry called England | Of life and those who lived it well”. Frank Turner’s 2011 ode to England “Rivers” encapsulates our connection to the English countryside, not least the patchwork quilt of the landscape viewed from the Great Ridge in Derbyshire. These two photographs show the serpentine road to Edale before and after a winter sunset: “Round here the sky is a little closer | A little closer to the ground”.