White Peak

This funny looking limestone hill is Thorpe Cloud. It lies in the lower, southern part of the Peak District National Park called White Peak.

Bridget, Robert and I had a wonderful walk through Dove Dale on Friday, my first day as their guest in Gotham in Nottinghamshire. The valleys of the White Peak look simular to the Frankonian Switzerland, but there are by far more sheeps and cattle grazing and stone walls give the landscape its typical British look.

Gotham is a small village famous for the stories of the Wise Men of Gotham. When King John intended to built a road through the village, its inhabitants pretended to be mad. Madness was believed to be highly contagious and when the King's knights saw the villagers behaving as if insane, they withdrew and the road was re-routed.

One of the mad actions was fencing off a small tree in order to prevent a cuckoo from flying away.