1 74 Woodhead. 



Roman station,) and at Shire-hill the latter a great 

 . tree-covered pyramid, that might have been tossed there 

 in pastime by the Titans. Continuing along the Hay- 

 field road, we get to the village of that name, the readiest 

 point of access to Kinder-Scout, that 



" Mountain huge, whose broad bare back 



Upheaves into the sky," 



and of which, Whiteley Nab, &c., are buttresses ; also to 

 the beautiful cataract called "Kinder Downfall." For 

 Hayfield, however, it is rather nearer to go by way of 

 Newmills, the station next beyond Disley, on the Bux- 

 ton line. 



Resuming the main Sheffield line at Dinting, we pre- 

 sently reach Hadfield, the nearest station for Tintwistle 

 and the neighbourhood, and shortly afterwards travel 

 alongside of the chief of the great reservoirs that supply 

 Manchester with water. The railway here passes through 

 the valley of the Etherowe, which rising in the moors 

 above Woodhead, has at this part been converted, by 

 damming up, into five successive guasi-lakes, not so 

 picturesque perhaps as some others that we have seen, 

 but still furnishing an agreeable spectacle as the train 

 rolls past the margin. Adding the reservoirs situated at 

 Godley and Denton, the surface of these noble water- 

 works represents nearly 500 acres.* As far as Godley, 



* Woodhead, 135; Torside, 160; Rhodes-wood, 54; Arnfield, 

 39; Hollingworth, 13; Godley, 18; Gorton, 13; Denton, 57. 

 Total, 489. 



