The Upper Sett Valley
The Ashes Farm is on the left and Gees Bank to the right
The Ashes farm was so called due
to the large amounts of ash, charcoal and slag found in the fields
where Iron smelting took place in the middle ages, before the
vast forest which once covered this area was consumed as fuel.
Gees Bank or Gees Bones as it was known was due to the practice
of generations of the Gee family having their ashes scattered
here overlooking their beloved Farm
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