Bonsall, Derbyshire
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Bonsall is a village in the Derbyshire Dales on the edge of the Peak District. It is 5 miles from Matlock and 18 miles from Derby. Bonsall has a long history of lead mining, along with its neighbouring town of Wirksworth probably going back to Roman times, and is even mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Bonsall inhabitants have been involved in the textile industry, pre- and post-Arkwright. In early modern times it was on an important salters' route, and was a staging post on the road between Derby and Manchester. Bonsall is still a working village, involved in agriculture, heavy goods transport and a range of forms of information technology.
The village lies on the Limestone Way, at the head of its branch to Matlock.
For two years after October 2000, there were 19 sightings of UFOs in the area. On October 5, 2000, Sharon Rowlands caught one sighting on film, which was no low flying aircraft or weather balloon. NASA were taken aback when the circular object showed an unlikely and undeniably distinct similarity to an unusual object seen on the STS-75 Columbia Space Shuttle mission in early 1996.[citation needed]
Since 2002, the landlord of the Barley Mow pub conducts UFO walks every Bank Holiday, and this has featured on BBC's 'Country File'.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Wirksworth's official website
- The Bonsall History Project
- The Bonsall UFO
- BBC News item on the 'Bonsall UFO'
- Discover Derbyshire
- The Barley Mow pub
- The Bonsall Field Barn Project
