On a hillside above the Dervent Valley lies this Peakland village near the Yorkshire border. On one side is the long grit-stone outcrop of Bamford Edge - on the other, it looks out to the great height of Win Hill, which rises over 1520 feet above sea-level and looks down into five dales.
Bamford's people live in gritstone houses with attractive gardens, and they go to a church built in 1861 by William Butterfield, which has a slender steeple over 100 feet high. Sheep-dog trials are held at Bamford each year on Spring Bank Holiday Monday.
One and a half miles north of the village is the first of a series of dams, though now with the passage of time, more like lakes, forming the Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs. Two ancient villages, Derwent and Ashopton, now lie between the waters of the lakes, submerged during the construction of the dams in the 1940s.
