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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Jackie Butler

Drowned village where church bells can still be heard rising from mud 80 years later

The eerie remains of a lost village submerged underwater in the 1940s have been making a ghostly reappearance when the weather is particularly hot and dry.

The slowly rotting ruins of buildings that were drowned to create the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire periodically rise from the mud when water levels drop enough.

Last reported four years ago, these rare and fascinating exposures offer a glimpse of what the farming community of Derwent used to be like.

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