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 Ale brewed in this part of the world always went down well, as Defoe found in the 1720s: ‘however rugged the hills were, the vales were everywhere fruitful ... not forgetting the ale, which everywhere exceeded, if possible, what was passed, as if the farther north the better the liquor’.
There was a good excuse for having lots of pubs in the Peak. Lead miners were at risk from the belland - lead poisoning - but had faith in one popular remedy, and that was to drink plenty ale.
Mining villages had large numbers of pubs; at one time there were 20 in Winster and 52 in Wirksworth. Even the rope makers of Peak Cavern at Castleton had their own alehouse, probably the only underground pub in the country.
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