From the Medieval period to the mid-twentieth century the Upper Derwent was mainly made up of individual and pairs of farmsteads scattered across the valley sides - such as Rowlee Farm shown here:

There was also a hamlet at Derwent which became a village in the 19th century.  Monastic and Crown landlords of the Medieval period were subsequently replaced by secular landlords during the 16th century.

The Upper Derwent landscape had become divided into different areas according to use and location.  However, each area formed part of an intricate network - a connected landscape that we can still see remnants of today and which maps the relationships between people and the land at that time.

Hollow-ways around the now abandoned Bamford House once connected it to fields and moorland common

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