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|  Middleton cottages
The most notable feature of the village is the grave of Thomas Bateman (1820-61), an important local archaeologist and excavator of some 500 local barrows. Though he took some care to record and analyse his finds, his methods were unfortunately not nearly as scientific as modern techniques, and he was known to have excavated as many as five barrows in one day. Many of his finds are now in Sheffield Museum, and some in the British Museum. He is buried in a field behind the former Congregational chapel, in a small enclosure surrounded by cast-iron railings. A barrow would perhaps have been more appropriate.
On the village green there is a playground and public toilets, and alongside there is a more recent memorial to the crew of a Lancaster bomber which crashed at nearby Smerrill in 1944.
The walking around Middleton is excellent. Bradford Dale is beautiful and the high, limestone pasturelands around the village harbour much archaeology, both ancient and industrial.
Middleton by Youlgreave Photo Gallery - click on the images to enlarge- Click Here for a slide show
0 - Middleton by Youlgrave - Thomas Bateman\'s tomb | 
1 - Middleton by Youlgrave | 
2 - Bradford Dale | 
3 - Youlgrave church - exterior view | 
4 - Youlgrave Church - memorial to Robert Gilbert | 
5 - Youlgrave Church - Roger Rooe tomb | 
6 - Youlgrave Church - medieval pilgrim figure | 
7 - Youlgrave Church - tomb of Thomas Cokayne | 
8 - Youlgrave public house | 
9 - Over Haddon stile | 
10 - Youlgrave YHA | 
11 - Youlgrave water cistern | 
12 - Fluorspar workings on Long Rake | | | |
Local places of interest | Arbor Low | Arbor Low is a Stone Age Henge (stone circle) monument in Derbyshire, situated close to Hartington and Youlgrave. It is the finest Stone Age henge monument in Northern England. | Ashbourne Church | St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne, is one of the grandest churches in Derbyshire with a fine array of alabaster tombs. | Bakewell Church | Bakewell parish church, Bakewell, Derbyshire, is built on the foundations of a Saxon church and includes some Norman sections. | Haddon Hall | Haddon Hall, a medieval manor house and home of the Dukes of Rutland, the Manners family, formerly home of the Vernons, in the Peak District by the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire. | Magpie Mine | The Magpie Mine, just South of Sheldon, was one of the most famous lead mines in the Derbyshire Peak District and was worked until the 1950s. Many of the buildings still stand. | Old House Museum, Bakewell | The Old House Museum, Bakewell, Derbyshire, has a small exhibition of local life and artefacts, housed in a typical yeoman's house of the 16th century. | Robin Hood's Stride | Robin Hood's Stride is a spectacular tor of gritstone rocks perched on a ridge between Harthill Moor and the Alport-Winster road in the Derbyshire Peak District. | Stanton Moor | Stanton Moor, and the Nine Ladies stone circle, Derbyshire - a scenic area with many bronze age relics and burial mounds overlooking Stanton in Peak and the Wye and Derwent valleys. | Tissington Trail | The Tissington Trail, a Derbyshire Peak District cycling trail follows the former railway line between Buxton and Ashbourne. | Youlgrave Church | Youlgrave or Youlgreave Church, Derbyshire, is one of the finest churches in the Peak District. The tombs of Thomas Cockayne, Sir John Rossington and Roger Rooe are especially fine. |
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