Bradfield Dale

The valley stands within the north-eastern boundary of the Peak District National Park just west of the village of Low Bradfield.

Luckily the Empsalls, including their three children, survived, as did their lodger William Rose, a reservoir construction worker.

Thornseats Lodge is an imposing house, which stands high (320 metres/1,050 ft) on the north side of the valley off Mortimer Road above Dale Dike Reservoir dam wall.

Lower Thornseat farmhouse on Dale Road (grade II listed[6]) dates from 1721 and stands within a small group of buildings which includes the Dale Dike reservoir keeper's house, a substantial stone built house dating from the 1870s.

When the reservoirs were built in the dale during the 1860s the farm became a public house serving the large number of navvies who arrived to do the construction work.

By the roadside is a small unusual listed building,[8] erected to protect people from a spring in which a child drowned in 1832.

[5][9] The Strines Inn, the only public house left in the dale with the closing of the Haychatter, stands at the head of the valley on Mortimer Road at a height of 1000 feet above sea level.