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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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