Familiar Landscapes

[ellarien]

I've just been watching The Princess Bride, which seemed a nice way to spend a lazy evening. I saw it once before, years ago, but that time I didn't notice that bits of it were shot within a few miles of my childhood home. The moor that Wesley and Buttercup escape across is in the vicinity of the Burbage valley, if I'm not mistaken, with Higgar Tor on the skyline, and the ravine they fall down is Cavedale, near Castleton, though in my world it ends in a quiet back street, not a scary forest. I've sat on those rocks and walked among that heather all my life; it's the landscape of my heart, the place I come back to every year and know for the one true countryside.

Higgar Tor On the outskirts of Sheffield, August 2004.