The Maynard

The Grindleford station is located at the foot of Padley Gorge, a few yards from the tunnel's western portal where Burbage Brook tumbles through thick forests on its way down from the wild moorland that inspired Charlotte Bronte during her visit to Hathersage while writing Jane Eyre. The ruins of Padley Manor, where two travelling Catholic priests, Nicholas Garlick and Robert Ludlam, who was living with John Fitzherbert, were discovered when the building was invaded in 1588, are a short walk from the station along a rocky track. The two were apprehended and sent to Derby, where they were declared guilty of high treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered in a horrific display of the time's religious intolerance. Despite the fact that much of the mansion was dismantled throughout the years, a gatehouse remained. This shard was restored and transformed into a tiny Catholic chapel in 1933. Since 1892, an annual pilgrimage has been organised to the grounds of th...