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Daily Mirror
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Adam May

Long-lost ruins of church submerged in reservoir finally unearthed in heatwave

The long-lost ruins of a submerged church have been unearthed after reservoir levels dropped.

Back in the 1940s, the village of Derwent in Derbyshire was flooded to make way for the Ladybower Reservoir.

It was created so that the cities of Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester could be provided with water, with the neighbouring village of Ashopton also sacrificed.

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