Walk with me to Derwent is a sort of point-and-click poetry game about looking for sunken villages in the Peak District.
'At certain times, very dry times, landmarks can reappear on the reservoir banks.’
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Between 1943 and 1945, the Ladybower Reservoir slowly filled with water. To facilitate the creation of this huge body of water in Derbyshire’s Hope Valley, two villages in the reservoir’s basin were evacuated. The inhabitants of Derwent and Ashopton were displaced to other local towns, or the nearby city of Sheffield. I went to the area to try and find the location of Derwent, and to find any remnants of the people that lived there.