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This large
village with its hilltop church and market cross, is probably
most famous as the home of the National Tramway Museum. It offers
a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a tram ride along a Victorian
street scene, with original signposts, stone flags and gaslamps,
all saved from the scapman.
- The magnificant
facade is from the old assembly rooms in Derby, saved and brought
to Crich after a fore destroyed the building in 1963.
- The fleet of
over 50 tram - cars are proudly displayed in their sheds and
each day during the season, a selection of them are brought out
to carry visitors along the mile of relaid track. They include
horse, steam and electronically operated tram - cars. Most are
British, but others are from Prague, Johannesburg, New York and
Vienna.
- A trip on a
tram - car takes the visitor across the front of the limestone
quarry, now being reworked, and below Crich Stand - a memorial
to the Sherwood Foresters Regiment who fell in the Two World
Wars, and is unexpectedly a lighthouse.
- The village
of Crich, with its scattered groups of stone cottages built around
tiny squares, is used as the setting for the T.V. drama, "Peak
Practice" where it is better known as "Cardale".
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