 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm out for a walk in the Peak District near the Goit Valley The water you can hear down below is Shooters Clough It's a small river that goes down from the hills up there and joins the River Goit Now we're on this track and as we get to here The track carries on down there But here you can see some gate posts the old gate posts to a country estate And that's what we've come to have a look at. So as you go through here Sort of imagine perhaps a horse and carriage riding up this grand That won't quite call it an avenue, but grand drive with views down into the valley below The place we're going to see is Irwood Hall It was built in the 1830s by a wealthy Manchester businessman called Samuel Grimshaw And he owned various Parts of the where he owned the whole estate actually, but he also had schools built. He had his own coal mine He had a church built for people who lived on his land and It's as it was a country state. That's why we've got various Roded Endrooms. You can see they've been carefully managed and cut down because as nice as Roded Endrooms can look In the spring They're a very invasive species Interesting there's some sets going up there. I won't go up those ones today But that just shows you how this would have all been parts of pleasure grounds We're going to carry on along here to find what we can of the hall itself. So It's not far now. We are coming towards the hall and as I said Shooters class is just down in the valley below and you can also see the other track that we were on Ahead of us it looks like we're opening up into a clearing which is where Hopefully we shall find the hall itself When I say the hall I might be meaning what is left of the hall, but you'll see in a moment Come down these steps Just here and I can just see through the trees the hall You'll see in a moment You can see right across the other side the hills on the other side the peak district I could see some snow on the tops of them when I was higher up the hill Now as we come down here It reveals itself there Is the remains of the wood hall? So As I said, it was built by Samuel Grimshaw in the 1830s And it was lived in by the Grimshaw family for about 100 years and then Unfortunately, it was demolished in the 1930s or most of it was demolished. It's quite nice. These arches here survive And most of the stone went into the construction of the gwaite reservoirs, let's believe, I expect this area here would have been a nice garden Maybe a formal garden I'm not entirely sure how it looked, but I imagine this would have all been gardens And there's been grand front to the house here Interesting there's another track that appears up here. They're probably what that wasn't the only way in that we came in You go down that way You'll come to the gwaite reservoir Let's go and have a look around the ruins of the house. So here's the grand front door Or where the grand front door once was would be better You come up here. Here's all the Make out the various rooms And then this maybe this was an outside courtyard. I'm not entirely sure. It could have been a grand hall in the middle and More rooms along here. Let's have a look at those arches. So so now we're the other side So I don't overly know Exactly which room would have been which when you walk around say a room in down the other castle It's usually a bit easier to sort of guess What would have been what but with a house. I imagine this perhaps was like um A sun lounge looking out into the onto the garden come down here. So imagine. Yeah, this was a garden that was possibly Sun lounge where they'd have sat and had tea and admired their gardens I'm not going to try and climb up to that window Try and go around here. I think I'll just stand back actually that you have a look at The best surviving parts of the ruins. It doesn't that's built rough against the hill as if it's um I suppose it was for shelter, but there you are there has the most impressive section of the ruins and go around the back now Um, which possibly was the least attractive elevation Of the hall because no one really ever saw it Climb back up Into the hall this way I'm what i'm gonna do I'm gonna carry on walking Up this valley there's another stream That runs off up there Because up there There is a Spanish shrine But I shall talk more about that when we get there, but it's about maybe a mile pre-course of a mile Up the hill so I'll I won't walk all the way just see these bits of ruins of the hall And then I should carry on up this looks like this might be some more grand arches. I'll just get down there looking at The bottoms of the buttresses that survive There are possibly more arches there. I'll have to look at some pictures if I can finally picture the hall how it used to look But now I'm going to carry on up this little valley up to the Spanish shrine So I just started walking up towards the Spanish shrine, but I haven't actually left the hall yet because One thing I did say was it's quite hard sometimes to work out which room was which like You know, you can work out where perhaps the drawing rooms were but which one was the drawing which one's dining room But there's some bits here, which is fairly obvious This must have been the old stable. So you go in here You can see Horse could have stood there one there one there So yeah, I'm fairly confident in saying I'm now standing in the old stable block And possibly there was sort of the various little yard behind So the horses would have come out here. So when I said at the beginning of the video people have ridden their horses This is where their horses would have been staying the guest no doubt they've been staying somewhere Upstairs that doesn't exist anymore. But now this time I really am going to carry on walking up I want to find this Spanish shrine and I'll talk about that when we get there Let's just have a look at their stream Good, it's quite can we see the stream? Yeah, it's uh, I can just see it right down there There's a streams down there I'm going to walk on up this path towards the Spanish valley That's been a very pleasant mile long walk along the slopes of Foxlow edge to hill up here Which I'm going to walk back along back to the Goit Valley But as I said when we were back down at the hall, we were going to look for a Spanish shrine now this Spanish shrine I'm going to apologize if I in advance if I don't say her name correctly, but I believe it's miss Dulu de Bergrin probably haven't said that correctly, but anyway, she was a Spanish teacher at the school She was an Irish to crack and she was also a governess to the Grimshaw family who lived at Wood Hall So down here They've built this little shrine for her and it's just about to reveal itself just ahead of us It's like a little chapel. It's um It's probably going to be the smallest church I've ever been in It's so small, but it's really um Very nice just feeling just here on the on the slope of Foxlow edge. There it is there. So it's going to have a look So as I said, it was built in her memory, so Here it's a round tower church. Well, that's the whole things round that won't be a tower Do you see the door is very small because I'm I've got to really duck down to go in and we come inside There's I assume it's pictures of Jesus Christ And um, there's various pictures people have left in here there's um I noticed there's this hanging up and you can see how not straight the building is because that is obviously straight So this window is leaning quite a long way that way, but that just all adds to the charm of it But it's hard to convey just how small this is as you can see there's no chairs or anything Look if I can try and give you an idea it is very small You could probably fit three at the most chairs in it, but it's not really meant to be a church for services It is just a shrine to the Spanish governess of the estates. I'm going to go Back outside duck down again And I'm going to carry on my walk. I'm going to go up past that oak tree up to the top of Foxlow edge and walk along Foxlow edge and um back To the Goit Valley itself. So hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching from the Spanish shrine On the Grim Shores estate. Hope you enjoyed it. Thank you very much for watching Please feel free to like and subscribe and tell your friends. Goodbye