In the Derbyshire Highlands

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Excerpt from In the Derbyshire Highlands: HighwaysHere is Quarnford, with door-ways, windows, and dados, wearing blue facings of lime-wash Poor cottages, but as clean and comely as those of the boasting village of Brock. There is poverty, but not squalor, and the children are characterised by that cleanliness which is the elegance of the poor. There is a Wesleyan chapel by the wayside. Wheresoever in the Peake countrie there happens to be a cluster of grey houses, hud~ dling together as if for warmth, there is sure to be a little Bethel. The National Church at one time neglected the wilds of Derbyshire. The people grew up as savage as the country. But the fiery fervour of Wesley, and the fierce fanaticism of Whitfield, reached the heathen of these highlands, and the preaching of Methodism was as the introduction of Christianity to the benighted aborigines. Depend upon it the High Peak owes more to Wesleyan zeal than some of us imagine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.