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Narnia in the Peak District? Find!
I have been looking through Bygone Derbyshire and discovered that legendary author C S Lewis has a link with Derbyshire and the Peak. As Lewis wrote later "My happiest hours are spent with three or four old friends in old clothes tramping together and putting up in small pubs". In 1935 he came on a walking trip with Oxford friend, Clive Barfield. They started out at Rudyard Lake on the edge of the Peak District and stayed overnight in Chapel-en-le-Frith (Capital of the Peak) before moving on to Hayfield and Kinder.
Lewis recorded this in a poem (perhaps not his best work):
Where reservoys ripple
And sun-shadows stipple
The beard of the corn,
We'll meet and we'll kipple
At Rudyard we'll Kipple
From, evening to morn
And then we'll set off, yus!
Discussing your Orpheus
His meaning and myth,
Till fettered by Morpheus,
The leaden-maced Morpheus,
Inaccurate Morpheus
At Chapel-en-le-Frith.
'C S Lewis, poet: the legacy of his poetic impulse' by Don King
Lewis commented in a letter to a friend that "It is limestone mountains: which means, from the practical point of view, that it has the jagged skylines and deep vallies (sic) of ordinary mountainous country, but with this important difference that, owing to the paleness of the rock and the extreme clarity of the rivers, it is loight instead of sombre." The Derbyshire countryside made such an impression that Lewis made a return visit with his brother. Three years later C S Lewis first started work on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Could it be that some of the imaginary landscapes of Narnia were based on the Peak District?
17 September 2009 from Will Newman
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