Posted in Farming, Police on Tuesday November 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A cow has been found shot dead on a field near Fenny Bentley, Ashbourne, overnight between Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd November.
Officers are investigating the incident and ask that other local farmers with livestock to report anything suspicious straight away to Derbyshire Police on 101.
Posted in Farming, Photography on Tuesday November 5, 2013| 3 Comments »
Posted in 2013, Farming, Photography, Posts of Note on Thursday October 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
… help, some one is shining a bright light in my face.”
“No, you silly moo, it’s just the sun.”
Photos by David G
Posted in Farming, History, Housing, Societies on Tuesday October 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in 2013, Church, Farming, Posts of Note on Monday October 7, 2013| 1 Comment »
“Has a temporary replacement been found for Mick’s section?” David G.
Added 11am Monday 7th. The flying flock have flown.
Posted in Farming, History, Housing, Societies on Saturday October 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Farming, Ornithology, Out & About, Photography on Thursday October 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“What’re they saying?”
Photo taken at Tissington Pond by David G. Is this marking the transition from our Indian Summer to weather for ducks?
Posted in Farming on Wednesday September 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A tup has recently been mauled by a dog while in a field adjoining Dam Lane. Can I remind dog owners about keeping their dogs under control where there is livestock about,
Sandra C
Posted in Farming, Photography on Friday August 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Are you looking at me?
ARE YOU LOOKING ME?
Photos by David G (click on each to enlarge it).
Posted in Farming, Photography on Monday August 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Parwich.org break World exclusive. Classified Top Secret: DEFRA trial new breed to double milk yield (more…)
Posted in Farming, Photography on Thursday August 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »
What’s Ben doing? I think he’s forgotten Tommy’s song. (Caption & photos by David G.)
Posted in 2013, Farming, Fauna, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday August 11, 2013| 1 Comment »
Posted in 2013, Environment, Farming, History, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday August 11, 2013| 3 Comments »
Field barns are an important feature of the White Peak landscape that surrounds our villages. As patterns of land holdings have changed (the village farm houses serving scattered fields are now gone, replaced by larger farms with houses and farm buildings on the land being farmed) and farming methods have improved, these fine buildings have become redundant, with many falling into disrepair. Here are some of the field barns that can be seen around Parwich Hill (just these local photos by Peter T):
A new book entitled “Field Barns of the Peak District” by Sheila Haines celebrates these buildings and challenges us to find new uses for them before they are irreparable ruins. Parwich.org would welcome any further photographs of the barns in our local parishes, perhaps to created a gazetteer and photographic record of those in Parwich, Eaton & Alsop and Ballidon.
For more information on Sheila Haines’ book (more…)
Posted in Farming, Local government, Weather on Sunday August 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Under the new scheme, Parwich’s first snow warden checks up on salt supplies ready for winter:
Photo by David G.
Posted in Classified adverts, Farming on Saturday July 20, 2013| 2 Comments »
Wanted, one small chicken coop. One I was buying tomorrow just fallen through and three chucks are arriving next week to no home!
Cheers,
Jon 390632
Posted in Farming on Monday July 1, 2013| 1 Comment »
Just when I was thinking everything was going well, Pippin has decided that she doesn’t want to be milked! If anyone could spare me about 10 minutes in a morning around 8 am or to suit, to hold her tail up while I milk her I should be very grateful. I am hoping this would only be for a couple of weeks.
Fiona 390191. Fiona@nethergreenfarm.plus.com
Posted in Farming, People, Photography, Weather on Saturday March 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
David and Sharon have been busy today, not only helping on the roads but also rescuing a flock of sheep. J.F-S.
A lot of people do a lot behind the scenes to keep the roads open, and the Legion, the Shop and the Pub functioning.
Posted in Classified adverts, Farming on Wednesday March 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Urgently needed:
sheep grazing land in or around Parwich.
Cash waiting.
Call Steve or Jo on 390090.
Posted in Classified adverts, Farming on Friday March 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Urgently needed:
sheep grazing land in or around Parwich.
Cash waiting.
Call 390090.
Posted in Farming, Police on Tuesday February 12, 2013| 1 Comment »
25 Texel cross hoggets have been stolen from a barn at farm premises in Bradbourne, Ashbourne between 5th and 11th February. The offenders selected the animals from the large flock – all tagged: 162744.
Farmers are being asked to be extra vigilant and to report any suspicious activity around their land to Derbyshire Police. If you have any information about this theft or have seen anything suspicious please call Derbyshire Police on 101 – quote crime number: 5891/13.
Posted in Farming, Pikehall, Police on Monday February 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trailer stolen from Pikehall
A trailer has been stolen from a farmer’s field in Pikehall, Matlock some time overnight on Friday 8th February to Saturday 9th February. A gate was removed from its hinges to gain access to remove the trailer.
Description: Indespension open trailer, size: 10’ x 5’, metal floor, galvanised steel sides.
Any information? Quote crime number: 5605/13.
Quantity of logs stolen from Parwich
Some time during the last few weeks, a large quantity of logs stolen from land off Pitts Lane in Parwich.
Any information? Quote crime number: 5457/13.
If you recall seeing any suspicious vehicles at these locations, please call Derbyshire Police on 101 with any information you may have.
Posted in 2013, Alsop, Church, Farming, Local Links, People, Posts of Note, Pub, Shop, Weather on Tuesday January 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
If you missed last night’s BBC1 Inside Out programme on our area, you can watch it again – for the next 7 days only – by clicking this link. There’s a little bit about us at the start of the programme, and then the main feature begins at around the 11 minute mark. Plenty of familiar faces!
Posted in Alsop, Farming, People, Pub, Weather on Sunday January 27, 2013| 1 Comment »
Posted in Alsop, Farming, People, Pub, Weather on Wednesday January 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in 2012, Environment, Farming, Peak Park, Planning, Posts of Note, Sustainability on Tuesday December 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
According to details on the PDNPA website, planning permission has been granted for two wind turbines at Hill Top Farm, each at a tower height of 24.5m, with a further 9m rotor radius. This is smaller than the originally rejected proposal, which measured 48.4m from base to blade tip. Note also that this is a time-limited consent, which expires after 25 years.
Click here to read the letter of notification, and click here for links to all the publicly available documentation.
Posted in 2012, Farming, News, People, Posts of Note on Sunday November 4, 2012| 1 Comment »
The missing ram Gary (or is it Bary?) was spotted this afternoon by Joanne J. Although somewhat taken aback by the size of the tup, this intrepid detective secured him in the garden of Hallcliffe until Sandra C was able to attend the identity parade. He has now been taken back into custody.
Asked for an explanation of events Bary (or is it Gary?), replied with a sheepish “no comment”. It was noted however that whatever he had been tup to over the last few days had left him somewhat lame. Is he pulling the wool over our eyes or do ewe know where he has been?
Sandra would like to thank Joanne, Paul and Caroline for their help.
Posted in Farming on Thursday November 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One of Ben C’s rams has been missing for the past few days. He is most likely to be found at the top end of the village. He is a large, white faced texel tup, with a faint red flock mark over his shoulders.
You can contact Ben on 0781 385 7014.
Update: The ram has been found! Click here for the full story…
Posted in Farming, Police on Thursday October 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Farming on Monday May 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
Posted in 2012, Environment, Farming, Peak Park, Planning, Posts of Note, Sustainability on Monday January 16, 2012| 3 Comments »
The following statement was issued today by the Peak District National Park Authority. This relates to the recent planning application for a wind turbine at Hill Top Farm. (more…)
Posted in Competition, Crafts, Farming, People on Saturday October 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Well done to Ben Chadfield on his latest successes. Ben won the Allyen Hardy Rosebowl for the best hedge growth at the Brailsford and District Ploughing & Hedge Cutting Society match. This was from a hedge Ben laid last year.
He achieved 2nd place in the Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt hedge laying competition and also won the best hedge growth prize.
Posted in Environment, Farming, Opinion, Peak Park, People, Planning, Sustainability on Tuesday September 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The planning application from Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm has been registered with Peak District National Park. Application number: NP/DDD/0911/0933 Proposal: Erection of a single wind turbine and stone build plant rooms.
All the planning documents can been seen on the National Park website or by visiting the Peak Park at Bakewell.
Posted in Farming, People, Sustainability on Friday September 2, 2011| 6 Comments »
Due to concerns raised about potential noise levels in the village, we conducted a further more extensive assessment which is quite technical but does conclude that noise may only be faintly audible under rare conditions, i.e. downwind at high wind speeds.
We hope to submit a planning application within the next 10 days.
Robert Gosling, Hill Top Farm.
To access the report, please click on the photo.
Open letter to the community about the proposed wind turbine – 5th May 2011.
Proposed wind turbine for Hill Top Farm: exhibition boards & questionnaire – 17th May 2011.
Update on proposed wind turbine – 1st June 2011
Wind Turbine – Reply to questions raised – 17th June 2011
Posted in Farming, Local Links, News, People, Sport, Wakes on Monday July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Spotted in the news: an informative write-up of the Hill Race in the Ripley & Heanor News, and a curious tale of painted sheep in the Stunner, furnished with quotes from Parwich’s Ben Chadfield.
Posted in 2011, Farming, Flora, Peak Park, Posts of Note, Walks & Rides on Tuesday July 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
More than 20 people from Parwich and Tissington met up in the Bletch Brook Valley with representatives from the National Park, to look at the wild flowers and find out about the elusive water vole.
Some of the best wild flower meadows are owned by Parwich United Charities (see photo below) and wonderfully managed by local farmers who over recent years through positive husbandry have brought back mixed hedgerows and increased the number of flowers dramatically. The reddish brown hue is bentgrass which follows the ridges of the ridge and furrow system in this field. One farm alone in the valley has over 200 mature trees, including 17 different species, this is considered remarkable for such a small area.
Thank you to Lynn Burrow, our local ranger for organising last night’s delightful free walk and to the experts, for their fascinating insight to the area and to all the farmers who look after this valley.
Photos – JaneB & Patti
Posted in 2011, Environment, Farming, Planning, Posts of Note, Sustainability on Friday June 17, 2011| 3 Comments »
On Tuesday 17th May Robert Gosling of Hill Top Farm organised an open exhibition regarding his proposals for a wind turbine to be located at his farm. He originally sent a letter into Parwich.org explaining the reasoning behind this plan.
This post is the reply from Robert Gosling to questions raised on Parwich.org and also to questionnaire responses.
1. Can we see the other photomontage locations?
We used a selection which gave a representative view. All
photomontages are below with the map showing the relative
positions.
All photos in this section can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Map showing the location of the photomontages.
Posted in Environment, Farming, Planning, Sustainability on Wednesday June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Robert Gosling posted this as a comment.
Many thanks to those of you who attended our display on 17th May, we were very pleased with the discussions and conversations on the night. Many of you have filled in questionnaires and returned them to us. These, along with the posts on the blog have given us a range of questions, comments and suggestions which we will respond to once we have got silaging out of the way. In the meantime please continue to return the questionnaires or leave comments and suggestions on the blog. We will post the results of these by the 17th June on Parwich.org
You can access a copy of this questionnaire, in Word format, by clicking here.
You can either print out a copy and deliver it to Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm, Parwich (DE6 1QE), or you can save and edit the document, then email it to robert_gosling@btconnect.com.
Posted in 2011, Environment, Farming, Planning, Posts of Note, Sustainability on Tuesday May 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
For those who were unable to attend today’s meeting in the Memorial Hall, here are copies of the display boards, in PDF format. These provide detailed information regarding the proposal.
Use left-click to open the files in your browser, or right-click to save copies to your own computer.
Click here for the main set of boards.
Click here for a supplementary board.
Note as that the main set of boards is a large PDF file (7 megabytes), there might be a brief delay in opening it.
Copies of a questionnaire were also distributed at the meeting. You can access a copy of this questionnaire, in Word format, by clicking here.
You can either print out a copy and deliver it to Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm, Parwich (DE6 1QE), or you can save and edit the document, then email it to robert_gosling@btconnect.com.
Although comments on Robert Gosling’s initial open letter were switched off prior to today’s meeting, there will be no further restrictions, other than the usual guidelines contained in our commenting policy.
PARWICH.ORG will be maintaining a neutral stance on this proposal. Any views expressed by indivdual members of the blog team should not necessarily be taken as representative of the team as a whole.
Posted in 2011, Environment, Farming, Planning, Posts of Note, Sustainability on Thursday May 5, 2011| 12 Comments »
We have received the following open letter to all village residents, from Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm. There will be a meeting, to which you are all invited, to discuss the proposal plan which he outlines below, pop into the Memorial Hall anytime between 6pm and 9pm on Tuesday 17th May.
Dear Resident,
You may be aware of my family farm at Hill Top Farm, either because you know me or a member of my family, or because you have walked or driven past the farm.
My family have in fact farmed in the Peak District for over 100 years, and from Hill Top Farm in particular since 1963. We have one full time and one part time employee to help my family manage a dairy herd of some 400 cows with 400 beef/follower cattle, and we farm approximately 765 acres of land.
The family are extremely interested in the environment. The farm is in the Uplands Entry Level Stewardship Scheme. The farm has also participated in a number of Peak Park Farm and Countryside initiatives for over 20 years (including over 2km of dry stone wall restoration, tree planting, daleside management etc). Linked to the environmental management of the farm, the business is also in a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone and the family have therefore invested in precision slurry application equipment to significantly reduce the use of artificial fertilizer and make better use of the farm’s own natural slurry. (more…)
Posted in Events, Farming, Local government, Local Links, Peak Park, People on Friday April 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Businesses of all sizes in the Peak District are being given a strong new voice with the creation of a group to promote the area as a place to do business.
Called Business Peak District the group will be led by a wide range of representatives from the business community. It will represent all businesses in the area covered by the Peak District National Park and the High Peak, Staffordshire Moorlands and Derbyshire Dales districts or boroughs.
All businesses are being invited to join an event to find out about the group and its plans at Thornbridge Hall, near Great Longstone, on Monday 16 May, 5-8pm. It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is. Maybe you are even thinking of starting a new business.
The group hopes to: (more…)
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