Gorgeous pictures of the countryside on your Free Republic home page.
Are they all from areas close to you in Derbyshire?
The photos are taken from the Peak Photos website. On of the photos on the site shows abandoned millstones at Stanage Edge:
This brings us rather neatly back to the French, as it was import of cheap millstones from France which destroyed the local millstone industry almost overnight some 250 years ago! The workers simply abandoned the half-finished stones and left.