This is a 1928 British Ordnance Survey map (click on it for a high resolution image). The strip running down it is the fabric the paper was mounted on (in small panels) to make it hard wearing and easy to fold. If you look carefully, you can see the millpond; which the shop looks out over in the centre of the village, to the right of 'Scarthin Nick' and above and slightly to the right of the 'd' in 'Cromford' (lower middle).
Geographically not much has changed in the last 70 years although, sadly, children can no longer happily play on the main road through the village. Over to the right and up a bit is Dethick; setting for Alison Uttley's 'A Traveller in Time' and the Via Gellia; the wooded valley to the left of Scarthin Nick, was home to D.H. Lawrence during the First World War.
Scarthin Books are Agents for the Ordnance Survey and we do our best to stock their entire range apart from the very large scale maps. If you are a walker or climber we recommend the laminated Outdoor Leisure series (No.24 is the White Peak).We also stock many types of road atlas and specialist maps for the cyclist along with maps that cover the more unusual bits of the Earth - street maps of Ulan Bator have been requested.We also have a stock of second hand maps.
If you are looking at a map of the U.K. we are about 125 miles north(ish) of London, which puts us level with the top of North Wales to the West and the top of the Wash to the East (very roughly!) both are about 80 miles away.The nearest large town is Derby (16 miles) with Sheffield (23 miles) and Nottingham (25miles) nearby.We are at the bottom end of the Pennine chain;the high ground that forms the backbone of England, and just two miles outside the Peak District National Park.
This map is about fifteen years old and again little has changed. The main difference, if you are driving to visit us, is traffic lights at the junction with the A6 and the relocation of the pedestrian crossing.