 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I've just driven my larder up to the Staffordshire village of Gryndon and what we're going to do today We're going to go for a walk down to the manifold valley and up to Fjords Cave I'm going to start off. I'm just going to walk through the church yard in the village of Gryndon And then I've got a walk about mile and a half down to the manifold valley And then we're going to climb to Fjords Cave, but let's start with the church because it's a beautiful Victorian church I've been told it's not open, so we won't be able to go inside, but we can have a look from the outside And then carry on Down into the manifold valley. I have been to the manifold valley before. It's a really beautiful place But I've not been to where we're going to today, so I'm really looking forward to it. We'll just have a look at the church at the moment Very attractive building Now we leave the church into the little village of Gryndon. It's not a big place Not sure how many people live here, but it you know, it isn't big, but it's very pleasant looking little village So here from here We shall come out of the church yard See a little lane I'm going to walk off down here And let's go down to the manifold valley and find Fjords Cave So as we come down the path from the village of Gryndon The place we're going to see is towering above us Not the tree, but the rock behind it. That's Fjords Cave. You can see The big hole now We're going to actually go up Into that and then when we've done that we're going to go right onto the top. So Fjords Cave was formed By wind and rain millions of years ago Once upon a time all of this land would have been under the sea and it would have been Um, you know compressed rocks on coral reefs perhaps and plants compressing it right down And then with the tectonic plates Land rises over millions of years ago And we're now rather than under the sea. We're quite high up And the cave eventually formed. It was used Um, would have been used by animals to shelter. It was also used as a bronze age burial site So it's going to be quite a fascinating place. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I'm just coming down To the manifold valley now this walk isn't meant to be a railway Walk or a disused railway walk, but Right in front of us. We happen to have a disused railway line. This is the old leak and manifold railway We have done videos on this in the past and my plan is to do a video The whole railway in the future where we'll go all the way from waterhouses right up to hill mend We have done A video at hill mend and we have done one in the tunnel But I'd like to do one on the whole railway and by the way the land we're on now is national trust It's called lady side. There we go. So, um, also Into a national trust place although There's no passports to be stamped if you um those of you who saw my national trust passport videos So here we are. This is where the little narrow gauge track Let me get the gate there This is where the little narrow gauge track would have ran And there's actually been a station here and tourist would have got off it And make their way as we're gonna do right up there Although we're obviously able to make do with walking not with a train So like I said, we will do the railway in the future We'll do a complete video on the railway but just so you know, we are actually standing the railway station would have been here And we are on an old railway station The river manifold Is just here. We're going to go over a bridge over the manifold and then we're going to begin our winding path up to Fjord's cave So we're just going to cross the bridge here Here's the bridge and the river appears to be Dried up which is rather a shame So yeah, that's a bit of a shame. I was looking forward to seeing the the water flowing and everything and But yeah, the river's dried up We're now going to begin our ascent up to Fjord's cave. Oh look some wild garlic I thought I could smell garlic then it's this plant here. This plant is wild garlic and you can actually eat these leaves So the path Continues up here. I'm going to carry on walking Up to Fjord's cave. We're going to go inside and explore it So I've been climbing up these steps from the valley floor Um, and we are now approaching the cave. This is the cave that's also featured in the 1988 film the lair of the white worm. Look at it there. There it is in front of it. So let's go up and I'll hop the final few steps And um, have a look inside which I'm really quite excited about We can see the views over the manifold valley Opening up. What we're going to do we've been in there The climbing won't be over. We're going to go up there to the rock on top so we can see The wider views over the valley, but right now Just going to let you see these views and then we shall go up and inside the cave See the railway track bed Just down there and the wind's picking up so I think we better get into the cave. Look at it. It's pretty exciting looking It's started raining now. A big good place to be This is real climbing about and I'm kind of, most people aren't doing it for camera. So it's the slightest advantage I've got but Hopefully I'm making a video that'll be quite exciting. Here's the track bed down there There's quite a lot of people in here. I just noticed down there Um down the bottom. I talked more about the geology. I just noticed A fossil there in the rock But let's go up Into the cave now. That's not a ghost. That's just someone with a torch And the other cave goes into there Carries on up that way. I'm not going to go up there because I haven't got a torch on me. Look at that That's the other entrance. That's not the one we came in. It goes into the other Main cave. She's really amazing. I mean Just have another look at this You think all this is natural. This isn't You know something the Victorians built to be a tourist attraction. It's a pure natural phenomenon. It's amazing Let's go down this this way here. I'm quite drawn to going down here and seeing where it'll take us I'll put it down there See there's like another Halfway going in And in the Iron Age this was um a burial place. So Don't know it could be haunted. I never know before these Iron Age people that were buried in here Now I'm going to get down here. It's a bit easier said than done me taking you this way That's all right. I think I can just about get out of here Excuse me a minute. There we go back on a sort of ground So the cave goes right into the rock that way. That's one way out To the very top of the hill to show you the best of the view. So that's where we came up the winding zigzag path Carry on this way now To the very top where no doubt we're going to get some really amazing views. So Let's climb to the top So we are now on our final steps up to the rock above Fjords cave The views are getting more more spectacular Looking down the Manifold Valley Down towards water houses. I can see the quarries and the cement works are cold and low That's where the leaking Manifold Railway would have started down there Valley Wines its way that way and you may be able to see on the hill over there the spire of Gryndon church where we started There's a sheer drop The view is amazing. I'm just going to show you now this side The pastures of fields is in complete contrast to what you see on this side So we walk just around here Here's the most dramatic part of the view Out into the valley. I can just see down there. That's the path we came down From the village of Gryndon, which clicker to this rock Just there and I'll show you the real panoramic view of the area Here we are on the rock. You can easily see the track bed down there because it is I must look like time Railway carries on up there the tunnel which we've been through in an earlier video It's further on up there. So yeah, it's a really amazing place. I'm going to go back down I'm going to try and find another way back up to the village of Gryndon. So I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching and why not come out here into the Peak District and see Fjords cave And the whole manifold valley in the future. I know there's not been on this video I've been a lot of the leaker manifold valley railway. We will do a video dedicated to the leaker manifold valley in the future So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe comment tell your friends. Thanks very much for watching