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BY the generous gift of Mr. F. A. Holmes of Buxton, announced on October 10, Stanton Moor Edge, near Rowsley, Derbyshire, becomes the pro perty of the National Trust. This body is already the owner of three properties in the immediate neighbourhood, Shining Cliff Woodlands at Amber-gate, Duffield Castle and Taddington Wood. The new acquisition consists of 28 acres and is an escarp ment, 900 ft. above sea-level, which forms a natural terrace a mile in length, looking out over moorland and the valleys of the Wye and Derwent. Not only is the view from this escarpment of great natural beauty, but it is situated in the middle of an area of exceptional interest for the historian and archseo-logist. It has been a centre of human habitation from the stone age onward and is one of the principal centres in Great Britain of the civilisation of the early bronze age, when it appears to have been thickly populated. In addition to the evidence of stone circles, round barrows and other monuments in the area, the culture of the district is to be studied in the rich and varied collections of funerary pottery, implements, weapons and ornaments of stone and bronze, which are to be seen in the museums of Buxton, Derby and Sheffield. Mr. Holmes, in addition to this generous gift, has shown his interest in the preservation of the antiquities and natural beauties of his county by his association with the efforts which secured the other Derbyshire properties for the nation, as well as,by his work as chairman of the Buxton Committee of the Council for the Preserva-.tion of Rural England.
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National Trust's New Property in Derbyshire. Nature 134, 599–600 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134599c0
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