Americans TOUR Historical DAMS || PEAK DISTRICT Relaxing Adventure (UK Vlog)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Come along with a couple of Americans as we TOUR the PEAK DISTRICT 2 Historical DAMS. We get to explore and tour such wonderful structures Dawent & Ladybower DAMS. Have any of you visited either of these Dams/ Reservoirs? We love traveling through England and the Peak District! We love our UK Vlogs and adventures we get to enjoy with you all. We enjoyed the beauty of just being outside this beautiful February morning. We hope you enjoy coming along with us on this adventure!
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Derwent Dam was used to practice and test the bouncing bombs from the famous Dam Busters Raid who were based here in Lincolnshire 😊
I live near Barnsley in South Yorkshire and I take my wife for a drive through the Peak District regularly. A628 towards Manchster then turn off towards Glossop which then opens up the Peak District. After a days drive we always end up driving through Castleton joining the A57 by Ladybower reservoir. My wife is disabled so we do not walk but she does enjoy the scenery from the car. I enjoy watching your videos, nice to see visitors who have the same love of our scenery as a lot of us do.
I don't know why but as a local I always feel proud of these spectacular reservoirs . They were built many years ago by hand. I also feel sorrow at the loss of the homes of the people who lost their villages . But in the commencing years they have done their jobs in many ways to help our country Your film is a fitting tribute thankyou
Great you get to see lots of places that most tourists never see. A lot of people from the UK I don't think would have been to many of the places you have either 😅
Have walked and cycled around the reservoirs a few times, and have been lucky enough to see aircraft fly low over the dam.
The Peak District is a gem, so good for your mental health, a walk, or drive, does you the world of good.
I took my parents to see two Lancaster Bombers do a memorial flight "flypast" over Derwent reservoir in 2014 - it was both spectacular and emotional.
This is another wonderful video, how can we not love this country of ours. I appreciate everything about this side of things, other sides need improving. Well done Chris and Jess.❤
The 'other' side of the dam has the RAF commemorative flags, stone, etc. for the Dambusters Squadron ✈️
Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire is where the bouncing bomb was trialled in WW2 and it is featured in a film called The Dam Busters. Ladybower dam and reservoir are near Sheffield (Yorkshire) and in a village called Bamford. If you see planes flying over it they are usually a flypast to mark key dates in WW2. You can get to it easily by car or train. On very hot days during droughts the remains of a village can be seen. It was a picturesque village but it had to be sacrificed when the reservoir and dam were built.
Spent a lot of my childhood in the 50-60`s strumbling through these hills as my Dad was a climber and founder member of the Oread Mountaineering club, we would come out for a days ramble in the surrounding hills at the week-end. The club now have a cottage on the outskirts of Chatsworth Park and one at the foot of Snowden in Wales. A few years ago, my daughter was photographer at the Derby evening Telegraph and she would come up to shoot the Lancaster flying over the dam on the anniversary of the Dambusters, sadly , the plane is too fragile to do it any more, the banks would be crowded with sightseers....nice to re-live memories on such a lovely day.
Another stunning video. By the way, if you ever find yourself in North Wales, I can recommend visiting Dinorwig Pump Storage hydro electric power station, or the similar one at Ffestiniog. They used to allow tours of the works and might still do so. It is fascinating. Thank you.
My father worked on Dinorwig in the 70s. He took me inside the mountain before the turbines were installed! He also worked on Llyn Brenig and I saw that empty as a kid. Amazing civil engineering.
Lake Vrynwy in Wales has a similar vibe to Ladybower and is well worth a visit.
The best thing is there is just the sound of nature, no traffic and its so calming
Love the birdsong.
I have walked round the dams at least 10 times but have cycled round them hundreds of times & up to the main feeder stream that runs down off the moors it's a great place to visit.
At the side of derwent dam their is a memorial to a shepperd and his sheep dog who died on the moor in the snow his dog stayed with his masters body
I recall a hot 1976 when the reservoir was very low. You could see some of the buildings in the village which flooded to form the dam.
my happy place is walking around those dams and nearby hills.
When you got to the second "plughole" you were at the bottom of Win Hill, there is a Lose Hill close by.
The story is that there was a battle fought here between the Mercians and Northumbrians.
The first King of all England was said to have been crowned at Dore (Sheffield) not far away, I beielve 827/829AD , King Ecgbert, there is a monument in the churchyard at Dore to commemorate it.
I live in Sheffield, and over the years I've been around the dams quite a few times, but through your camera lens the area looks different somehow. I remember it as being very pleasant, but you have captured a beautiful area, maybe even magnificent, and that has surprised me. Maybe in past visits I've just been lazy and taken it for granted. So thanks for that 'awakening'. Sheffield South Yorkshire.
It's not too difficult a hike to the top of the hills overlooking the lakes. And on the way up you would see the Grouse jumping out of the gorse and heather. There's a rock formation called the Coach and Horses overlooking Derwent where I had lunch one day in 2023.
Beautiful walk and nicely filmed and narrated. The peaks never stop giving.
Here’s to those magnificent people who designed and built these monumental fetes of civil engineering, not just to serve a purpose, but to hand down to us fantastic structures that we can visit and admire. Great video.
Lady Bower was the location of my first bike ride. Christmas day 1965, aged nine. Thank you 🚲
It doesn't happen every year but occasionally if the water level is low some of the buildings of the villages that were flooded are exposed. The Dam Busters (1955) is a beloved classic British war film about Operation Chastise and the invention of the 'bouncing bomb' by Sir Barnes Wallis that was used in the raid.
It''s good to see someone else from another nation appreciating what we, the nearly locals, see there.
What you see here is just how low the Dam buster aircraft were flying. Also how the fields hills were formed in hundreds of thousands of years. You made this video so well what great people and the artist amazing picture.
A really lovely but suitably poignant painting done by Paul. Well done!
Another great video. I often fly over these dams (see profile pic). I always imagine what it must have felt like doing it at low level in a Lancaster bomber!
Check out the videos of the Lancaster and Vulcan aircraft and how it was used for the Dambuster in the Second World War, the sounds are amazing. I see you like aircraft museums, if you get chance check out Shuttleworth, especially there evening flying displays where you will see some of the oldest airplanes in the world still flying
I love getting up around there, my partner lives in the Peak District .... I want to get up on Bamford Edge this year, some medical issues stopped me last year.
Looks so beautiful . I love the giant plughole and the story of two villages being submerged to create the dam. Great Video.👍
These Dams are wonderful gems
Brilliant videography. Thanks for another lovely tour. x
Derwent wasn't the target of Operation Chastise, they were in Germany, it was one of the dams used for practise.
Great video 😊
When you get back to the States you could start a gallery with still shots taken from all your trips around the U.K. We will be sorry to see you go and hope you come back to us soon.
Another wonderful video. Thank you! I watch this waiting for my wife who will be driving passed this very location after a visit to her parents in Sheffield.
Great video love the dam where they used to practice on the bouncing bomb.
It’s been a few years since I did these walks. I live just an hours drive away from Ladybower. I think I will go visit again in late spring. ❤👍🇬🇧
i was hoping the weather picks up for a ride out here this weekend ,foggy and damp today so will give it a miss ,and enjoy your video instead.
Every time i visit this area im sure i can hear the roar of them Lancaster bombers practicing
I often cycle all the way round the Ladybower reservoir and it is one of my favourite rides.
You can hire cycles at the visitor's centre.
Well worth a ride in spring and summer.
as a kid i swam in both ladybower and derwent in summer
Lovely footage once more from Chris. Great to see the weather being kind to you. It surely shows off the UK at its best when it shines. Though, it has to be said, sometimes the scenery takes on another majesty when it turns dark and stormy. Looking forward to you next trip out. 💙 🙂
I live about 15 minutes away from there and sometimes I forget quite how lucky I am, glad you are enjoying our little bit of the U.K.
You asked who had walked round those lakes and across the dam? Holding my hand up. Another lovely walking video. The water for the town I was brought up in, nearly 70 miles away, comes by aqueduct from those reservoirs. Loved the great drone panoramic shots too! The whirlpool down that "plughole" is VERY spectacular and freaks people out, when the water is higher. The third dam (Howden) further up the valley, is similar to the Derwent dam and likewise really scenic.
I suspect you won't have had time for much else round the Snake/Ladybower? You were very close to the Hope and Edale valleys and Castleton - SO much to see round there as well! But you managed loads in the trip as it was - really enjoyed you sharing it!
Suggestion for similar, maybe even more, spectacular and scenic dams and reservoirs: mid-Wales. The Elan (pron. "ELL-an") Valley has an amazing and really scenic chain of very impressive stone dams, and reservoirs - understanding that there remains very strong local feeling about flooding beautiful Welsh valleys to provide water to Birmingham. And Llyn Vyrnwy and its magnificent long stone dam and spectacular scenery, especially the high mountain roads beyond the lake, is really scenic.
As are Llyn Brianne, for a different (gravel-faced) type of dam again; Llyn Clywedog for yet another type (more recent and concrete); and Nant Y Moch with its lake very high up, and the landscape flanking Punlumon Fawr ("Plynlimon") wonderfully open and treeless and very empty! All are a long cross-country journey from where you live, though - so ideally an overnight stay somewhere like Rhayader, I'd suggest, if you ever get the opportunity before you go.
Adrian,
It was such a fantastic experience, and we loved our time. I'm so glad you enjoyed our adventure and also experienced the Dams as well.
Thank you so much for always sharing such wonderful suggestions on places for us to visit. We will definitely try to visit those.
We did visit a couple of other places while we were there on our longer trip. 😉 That will come out this next week on Thursday but Wednesday for you!
We have just looked up those places. Wow! I do agree that we will really try to check them out. Friend, we really hope your weekend has been as amazing as you are! We appreciate all your wonderful guidance and love!
🤍 Jess & Chris x
@DaydreamersBound I DO wish you were able to stay here a bit longer, and with more free time. You have already covered an amazing amount of ground. But there is so much more of our lovely country you have still to see, especially in Scotland and west Wales and the far West Country and the far north of England which are too far even for the amazing Chris to drive in a day trip! And then there is wonderful Northern Ireland, and indeed the whole so-beautiful and historic island of Ireland and its lovely people - I suspect that would blow you away!
@adriangoodrich4306 friend, I so wish too! I'm sure we will be back as many times as possible to explore once Chris is retired. 😉
We love it here and have so much to see and experience. We will just have to start saving money to come back often! 🤍 Jess x
@DaydreamersBound ps. You guys have some incredible dams in the US, of course! We've been to the Hoover Dam and the Shasta Dam (my favourite) and the Glen Canyon dam, and all three are just SO huge and SO impressive! And the scenery round all three is out of this world.
@adriangoodrich4306 we look forward to take you all along on US adventures but can't keep me away from the UK. We have not visited those Dams before and would love to visit those as well.
Do you all have any holiday to the US anytime soon?
Yet again, a lovely video with some really great views.
Thank's for your vid.
You now need to watch The Dambusters film
I do hope you get a chance to visit the North Yorkshire Moors and spend a day in Whitby
Welcome to my part of the world. Unfortunately you were probably a week or two too early to see the dam wall and the plug holes gushing with overflowing water. The noise is so loud when it’s in full flow - especially over the dam wall.
There is a reservoir in Lake Berryessa, 75 miles north of San Francisco that has a plug hole like this
A trip to wales recommended to the pass that the RAF use for low flying practice, from the top of the mountain one is looking down on the aircraft flying past at 700 knots. The locals know the dates and times they use it. At least the modern navigation equipment better than the 'Heath Robinson' Dambuster's two spotlights with beams that converged to one spot at 50ft and flying a lot slower with incoming AA fire. Fortunately once at that height below the German's guns height range and only machine gun fire.
I live in the Peak District, but it's far from my favourite place in the UK. You need to explore mid and north Wales. It's on another level of epic scenery compared to the Peak and Lake District. Lake Vyrnwy in Wales is far more beautiful and mysterious than Ladybower and mid and north Wales have some of the most stunning scenery in Britain. However, Winter is a terrible time to tour the UK. It is freezing cold, bleak, grey and miserable. The UK comes alive in Spring and blossoms into deep colours and gets decent temperatures. When the yellow daffodils and the yellow rape seed blossoms it can look mediterranean.
Yes its, beautiful been many times..Also when water levels are low you can see buildings from the village....
Great video 👍 The Dam was a treat and the view's epic.If you want some suggestions on where to visit try the Garden's of Cornwall as depicted on Monty Don's TV show on
8,2,2025😊
I have frequently visited but pass when on my way to Manchester sometimes the water level gets very low in summer
I have a photo of a Lancaster flying low over the dam .
Wonderful photography.
My parents had their honeymoon there!! 😂
The grass is mown by nature, your favourite animal - sheep
It's a pity you didn't get to have a look in the museum, it's combined with the 617 squadron (the dambusters) and the village that was flooded to create the dam.
I think it's only open certain days.
As your touring the Peak District do you know about John F Kennedy’s sister who is buried in the tiny village of Edensor which is close to Chatsworth House. I was talking to a local who has lived in the village all his life and he said JFK actually visited her grave and he got to see him. It’s well worth the visit (go early as parking can be a problem) you can stop for a bite to eat at the local cafe. If you need directions on where the grave is,drop me a comment. The grave is marked with a stone saying JFK visited. We visited JFK and his wife Jacqueline’s graves when we visited Washington DC back in 2013 which was very emotional but it was a trip we had to do and pay our respects.
Ah! So you did stop off on your snake pass visit 😂
And no wild animals to think about that can kill you 😊
I reckon the total number of Americans that have been where you folks have would fit into a pretty small room.
Here is a re-enactment by the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight of the wartime practise mission over the Peak District dams. ua-cam.com/video/WT5IbGi6BcU/v-deo.html It was my great honour to be Deputy Air Show Co-ordinator at two RAF Stations.
Brilliant footage from 2013, I remember the occasion but have never seen any footage apart from about 10 seconds on the national tv news at the time. I know the area well as it's part of my some of my favourite cycling route for many years. Anyway thanks very much for the link. BTW I was actually born on VE day 8th May 1945.
Wow, there was nothing about the video that wasn't stunning. The water appeared to be black to me. If it wasn't a trick of the light it would be because of the run-off from the peat bogs in the highlands. It makes the water look even more dramatic.