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Derwent Valley Mills Creative Activities

We know that recently people have had to spend more time at home and we thought you might enjoy some new ideas to get creative, each one fully illustrated and with simple 'how to' instructions.

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DVMWHS Children's Guide
DVMWHS Children's Guide

Our Children's Guide "The Story of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site" introduces this site and the reasons it was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2001.

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Cromford Canal Heritage and Wildlife
Cromford Canal Heritage and Wildlife

Take a virtual journey along the Cromford Canal in this wonderful Nearpod Session - with lots of activities to complete along the way.

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EYFS Loan Box
Informal Learning, EYFS Loan Box

The activities in the loan box are designed for nurseries, playgroups, younger families and early years settings to play and explore and are linked to the spinning mills, valley landscape and waterpower.

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Cromford Canal Sketch Book
Cromford Canal Sketch Book

Why not download this ideas sketch book and use it to inspire and capture your visit to Cromford Mills, Cromford Canal, High Peak Junction, Leawood Pumphouse and Aqueduct Cottage.

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Derwent Valley Mills at Home
Derwent Valley Mills at Home

Whilst we're all spending much more time at home, we thought we'd put together a few activities to help keep you and the family occupied!

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Cotton-winding machine
How the Derwent Valley changed the World

This is the story of the industrial revolution – a time of great change in Britain’s history when we were transformed from a nation of mainly farm workers to a nation of mainly factory workers.

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Patrimonito: the international mascot of the World Heritage Programme
Children’s Activities

Download our Wordsearch and find all the words. Find out about Patrimonito. Find out about the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and discover what there is to do for children and families at each of the places.

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“Richard Arkwright” outside the Silk Mill’s Bakewell Gates
Funny facts

Find out where cotton comes from, how many brains silk worms have and how many World Heritage Sites there are.

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Story-telling walks
Story-telling Walks

Pick from the menu of activities to turn a wander into a story walk. Inspired by things you find, see, hear and smell, you might make up an adventurous tale, a magical story or simply tell the story of your walk.

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The Whistlestop Centre

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust provides hands-on activities at our Whistlestop Centre, designed to help children of all ages and abilities discover and understand the natural world around them. Situated in the old railway station buildings in Matlock Bath, beside the river Derwent and nestled below the spectacular High Tor Woods, activities focus on celebrating the landscape of the World Heritage Site.

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Monitoring the World Heritage Site
UNESCO and Other World Heritage Sites

The World Heritage List includes all the sites that UNESCO has agreed are of outstanding universal value to humanity. The World Heritage List has three aspects. It includes monuments and groups of buildings and sites which are considered as cultural heritage. It includes areas of landscape which are considered as natural heritage. It includes sites which are considered to combine cultural and natural heritage.

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