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D6230 - Repton Priory deeds transcripts; Tymm family of Edale, 17th-18th cent.; Nicholas Cresswell (1750-1804), of Edale, late 18th cent.; and miscellaneous papers. - 17th-19th cent.
8 - Nicholas Cresswell (1750-1804) of Edale: letters, 1780-1783, to him from William Bray (1736-1832), antiquarian, author of 'A tour into Yorkshire and Derbyshire', and John Wilson (1719-1783) of Broomhead Hall, near Sheffield, antiquarian - 18th cent.
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D6230/8/16
Title
Letter from John Wilson, Broomhead, to Nicholas Cresswell
Date
1780
Description
Thanks for account of Indian war masks; marble stones, not marvel stones, near Buxton; worth a visit to see if they are druidical because 'disposed in circles'; no camps known on Winhill or Losehill; Castleton Castle: Brough a kind of Roman station; inscribed bricks and ties found there; remains of a Roman way called Bathom [Botham] gate leading to Buxton bath; 'many druidical remains upon the moors worthy an antiquarian's noticee' but too numerous to describe; include Arbor Low and rocking stone at Rowtor; 'it's pity no body attempts a history of Derbyshire of which we have but a poor account and which affords such a fund both for antiquity and natural history', 18th December
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