Unprecedented ‘Armageddon’ Warning as Britain’s Most Prestigious Guidebooks Turn Spotlight on Derbyshire’s ‘Disgraceful’ Landscape

Unprecedented ‘Armageddon’ Warning as Britain’s Most Prestigious Guidebooks Turn Spotlight on Derbyshire’s ‘Disgraceful’ Landscape

Since the 1930s, Sir John Betjeman’s Shell Guides have mixed praise with plain speaking. The new Heritage volume, by former judge William Glossop, crowns Derbyshire the jewel of Britain’s countryside but delivers a damning verdict: quarrying stands guilty of scarring its historic landscape. One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious guidebooks has issued an unprecedented warning about the state of Derbyshire’s landscape. The new Heritage Shell…