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Posted by Richard_Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 14 December 2007 in Landscape & Rural.

Crich Chase, Derbyshire

This area was once an enclosure (protected land for hunting deer) about 1000 years ago, and today remains as an area of mixed woodland, with steep slopes, and rocky outcrops. The word Crich comes fro the Celtic name for 'hill' or 'crag', which was Cryc. The nearby village of Crich is mentioned in The Domesday Book in 1086, but it was probably settled for many centuries before that.

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