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Longdendale Tales

ASFB Productions

A podcast series exploring the often forgotten stories of the Longdendale valley - past and present! Clare Savory rediscovers Glossop, Crowden, Woodhead, Tintwistle, Hadfield and the many reservoirs running along the Longdendale Trail, Trans Pennine and Pennine ways. The pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates and the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Now, in 2025, a new 3-part video podcast series has been support by Derbyshire Makes and High

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All Episodes

29:00

Derbyshire Makes Part 3 - Part Fantasy

Longdendale Tales ·

2025/04/15

An ambient, musical, manipulated reworking of the everyday sounds of Glossop, by Clare Savory and Simon Galloway.The two sound artists have taken samples from the soundscapes of episode 31, and transformed them into warped loops, sprinkled with plenty of reverb, added a bit of synth - and voila, this is Glossopdale as you’ve never heard before!The result is a half hour long sonic journey from spacious calming chords accompanied by nature, to harsh rhythmic percussive-like loops created from the

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29:00

Derbyshire Makes Part 2 - Glossop, As It Is

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2025/04/15

Enjoy listening to Glossop and its surrounding towns closer than you’ve ever done before!Soundscapes and snippets of audio have been captured over several years, and now with the public’s help, sound artist Clare Savory has transformed everyday moments in Glossopdale into a visualised piece of art.From the dawn chorus in Hadfield, to the owls tooting in Simmondley. To the sizzle of the chippy fryer in Gamesley to the rhythmic whirring of Spring Clean launderette in Glossop. There’s curlews in

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28:59

Derbyshire Makes Part 1 - Why listen?

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2025/04/15

Curator Clare Savory tells the stories behind the making of episode 31’s full Glossop audio tapestry.Whilst out walking ‘the nab’ near Chunal and Charlestown, she explains why it’s become her mission to help people reclaim ‘sound’ to better their health - and their connection to others and the world around them.By recording everyday sounds, she hopes people who live in the area will take notice of the town’s and moor’s wonderful noises - before it’s too late.In this episode, you can enjoy willow

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27:24

Christmas in Crowden

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/12/21

Back in March (episode 8), Clare Savory visited an almost forgotten chapel on the hillside between Woodhead and Crowden... Now a group of volunteers from across the Longdendale valley (and beyond) have rescued St James' Church. In this special Christmas episode, Clare invites Longdendale Tales listeners in for a sneak peek of the first concert at the chapel in years.Music is provided by Adrian Loader and Arnfield Brass Band. Tintwistle-based celebrant Steph Baker leads the service.You can support

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08:42

Soundscaping The Old House Tunnel, Rain and Pylons

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/04/02

As the series draws to a close, Clare Savory follows an old path underneath the Longdendale Trail, where there’s another railway tunnel marked ‘The Old House’.She ponders over words Robert Macfarlane shared about the origins of paths and “the secrets they keep of adventures, meetings and departures”.Clare walks from one end of the tunnel to the other - listen closely to the buzz of the pylons, to the raindrops inside, to the heavy rain and birdsong at the opposite end.And she tells a tale of a cat

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12:37

A Picnic At Woodhead (Part Four) by Thomas Barlow

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2023/04/01

It’s the final instalment of the bard of Longdendale’s story about a group of day trippers (and their plentiful hamper) travelling the region in June 1867. Actress Cordelia Howard completes the tale of the party’s return journey from Crowden to Manchester.The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our

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35:03

Folklore, Fiction and The Devil’s Elbow

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2023/03/31

Nanny Greenteeth and Nell Nettlespike, Baron de Morland and Sir Mottram De Mossland…some of the characters presented in the myths and legends about the Longdendale Valley. In particular, they feature in many of the explanations of how a hairpin along Woodhead Head earned the title ‘devil’s elbow’.Walking from The Peels Arms in Padfield to Peak Naze, Clare Savory is joined by Glossop-based science-fiction writer Matt Hill (M. T. Hill). Together they talk about how the landscape inspires their work,

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29:18

Haikus, Prayers and What3Words (Plus A Little Frogspawn)

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2023/03/30

Whilst recording this podcast series, Clare Savory met retired-clergy-now-fellow-Hadfield-ers Janet Lees and Bob Warwicker. As passionate long-distance walkers, they’ve explored many of the corners and paths of the Longdendale Trail (and much of the country by foot).During lockdown their observational rambles inspired their prayers to fall in the form of poetry, which are published on one of their many blog sites and have been mapped out as walking trails along the valley.In this episode, the three

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31:44

Arnfield: Peak District GUIDElines and boundaries

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/29

From the Bulls Head in Tintwistle to Arnfield Farm; Clare Savory walks along the boundary of the Peak District National Park with Cora Glasser and David Ball of Glassball Studio.Their latest project, GUIDEline, explores the nature of the park’s boundary, its history and how it was formed from Glossop to Diggle.Together they share some of the work and research they’ve uncovered over the last 4 years, whilst collaborating with artists Alison Lloyd and Dr Tony Hall.From politics, to airshafts, to

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30:20

Torside: Walking With An Artists’ Eye

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2023/03/28

Enjoy a windy walk with Clare Savory along the northern path of Torside Reservoir; taking time to notice the colours, the patterns, shapes and lines through an artists’ lens.Local painter Liz Armstrong from Glossop Art Society offers tips to get started sketching when out on your walks. Plus, they share the story behind the idea of open air painting, also known by the Italians as ‘pro loco’ (of and on location).Visit https://hadfieldhall.wordpress.com/art-show/ for information about Hadfield Open

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18:35

More Mills: Rhodes, Bottoms, Crowden and Torside

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2023/03/27

From wool to cotton; Kate Raine paints a picture of how the area surrounding Bottoms Reservoir looked before and during the building of the reservoirs. Including Crowden Bleach Works, Bottoms Lodge and the mystery behind Torside Paper Mill…was it actually a pub?!And - what connects Rhodeswood Reservoir with the Victoria Hall in Glossop? Spoiler alert: It’s Herbert Rhodes, one of the owners of the many mills in Hadfield and Padfield, and once mayor of Glossop.Plus, how did the reservoirs get their

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11:59

Awe and Wonder; Movement and Play

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2023/03/26

Sped up, slowed down, turned round and round - today’s Sunday soundscape is recorded walking along Crowden weir. Enjoy listening to the sound of the gushing fast flowing stream as Clare Savory turns in circles, allowing the water to move all around us. (Best listened wearing headphones!)The week’s conversations about adopting a sense of play with the children in the brook; to the issues around safety in encouraging more women to enjoy walking the park have been rumbling around Clare’s mind

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08:22

A Picnic At Woodhead (Part Three) by Thomas Barlow

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/25

The party has opened and indulged in the hamper’s delights, what next for Thomas Barlow’s day-trippers enjoying a wet and wild summer’s day out in Woodhead? Cordelia Howard provides the third instalment of ‘A Picnic At Woodhead’.The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive

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25:00

Stoneflies, Nymphs and Crowden Brook

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/24

Listen closely as the year 6 pupils of Parochial Primary School in Ashton Under Lyne find their feet walking in wellies along Crowden Brook! Peak District National Park community ranger/oracle Matt Ross returns to the podcast to tell us how he inspires the future generation using stories of stoneflies and nymphs.This episode includes a cringe worthy joke about the Oasis hit Don’t Look Back In Anger. Sorry. But a cool fact about a stonefly called Yellow Sally...To find out more information about the

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33:33

Bottoms, Benefits and Barriers To Moving More

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2023/03/23

Helen Thornhill from Move More Glossop, a community partnership project led by The Bureau, encourages more of us to get fit by building activity into our everyday life. Clare Savory and Helen take a popular loop around Bottoms Reservoir to talk about who, why and how she helps people get started - no matter their mobility.Plus, they bump into a local chap called Jimmy by chance - who it turns out used to work on the reservoirs some 30+ years ago. He shares a few tales about climbing down the steps

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38:18

Stone Masons, Witches’ Markings And (More) Victorian...

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2023/03/22

Following the medieval trackway from Padfield towards Deep Clough, archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green and Clare Savory sift through the stone mason markings in the tunnels under the Longdendale Trail, as well as spotting two apotropaic markings on a bridge: “two inverted V’s”. These religious markings are believed to have been used to ward off evil or bad luck…and perhaps witches after the reformation?!Elsewhere, we stumble across some more Victorian pottery, a ‘glacial erratic’ and Tim shares the

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39:26

The Plane Crashes of Bleaklow and Beyond

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/21

8 air crashes; 36 people killed, 2 survivors...That's just in and around the area surrounding Bleaklow moor between the years 1939 and 1956.Yet most people have only heard of (and visited) the site where the Bleaklow Bomber met its fate - a US Air Force Boeing B29A Superfortress that crashed near Higher Shelf Stones in 1948.Mountain leader Alan Clark joins Clare Savory for a second podcast episode looking into the many crash sites on the south side of the Longdendale moors. They were recording sat

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42:13

Longdendale Lights, Ghosts and Tunnels; Glossop...

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/20

Glossop Chronicle journalist David Jones walks from Hadfield Train Station along the Longdendale Trail recalling some of the stories he reported for the local newspaper.From the opening of the trail, to walking the Woodhead train line tunnels to the many paranormal sightings in and around the valley… plus, rowdy football fans and a tale about Dick Turpin!Many of the articles we talk about during this interview have been pinned to our digital map, available at LongdendaleTales.co.ukThis pilot project

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09:28

The Day A Snowy Woodhead Pass Was Closed

Longdendale Tales ·

2023/03/19

For this week’s Sunday Soundscape, we walk beside an almost silent Woodhead Pass - usually filled with the deafening sound of lorries and cars driving all day and all night.But today, with 7 inches of snow, the area surrounding Rhodeswood Reservoir and Didsbury Intake was filled with nothing but the sounds of long tailed tits, blue tits and great tits. Well, and lots of melting ice falling from the towering trees above...This week’s poignant words come from the Scottish poet Thomas A Clark’s ‘In

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09:26

A Picnic At Woodhead (Part Two) by Thomas Barlow

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2023/03/18

In the second of four storytelling episodes, actress Cordelia Howard continues reading the bard of Longdendale’s retelling of a wild day trip to Woodhead with friends.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk for more information about our digital map and 28 part walking podcast series.This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Special thanks to Holly Close

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