Time Line - Anglo Saxons to 19th Century.
Approx. date (AD)
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Changes
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Sites
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1825
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Cromford & High Peak Railway
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High Peak Trail
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1750- 1800
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Turnpike Roads
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1700 - 1830
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Enclosure of commons
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Siddall's fields (Curbar)
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1700 - 1850
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Large scale lead mining
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Mandale Mine (Lathkill Dale)
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1660's
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Plague / measles
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Eyam Monuments
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1640's
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Civil War
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Last wild deer killed
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1539
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Suppression of monasteries
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Beauchief Abbey
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1349
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Black Death
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Abandoned fields
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around 1300
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Deforestation & population expansion
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"Hey" field names
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around 1150 AD
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Expansion of monastic "ranch" farms
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Roystone Grange
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1070 AD
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Revolt of the North
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Pilsbury Castle
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1066 AD
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Norman Conquest
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Peveril castle
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877 AD
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Danelaw established
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"Grain" & "Gate" names
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around 700 AD
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Derbyshire part of Mercia
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Eyam Cross
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around 600 AD
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"Pecsaetan" (Anglo Saxon) people move into the area & give their name to the Peak.
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Grey Ditch, Bar Dyke
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around 535 -536
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Widespread disruption & crop failures. May have been due to catastrophic volcanic explosions in Central America.
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around 400 AD
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Roman government collapses
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