Garland Day at Castleton

BEFORE describing the ceremony which forms the subject of this paper, let me first say something about the district in which it is performed, and about the inhabitants and their traditions and customs.The village of Castleton, in the High Peak of Derbyshire, lies at the bottom of an amphitheatre of steep and lofty hills thinly covered by grass, limestone crags protruding here and there from its slopes.It is difficult of access except on its western side, in the direction of the adjacent village of Hope.Before the opening of the Dore and Chinley Railway a few years ago it was visited chiefly for its well-known caves, and for the ancient and once impregnable castle which frowns over the village, and which has been made widely known by Scott's Peveril of the Peak.In 1851 it had fewer than 900 inhabitants, and since the decay of the lead-mining industry the population has become still smaller.Last April the census showed that there were 547 inhabitants.Parts of the church are old, the chancel arch being round, arid, of Romanesque or Norman work, with chevron ornamentation.The parish consists of the townships of Castleton and Edale, which contain together about 10,000 acres, Edale being a small village which is separated from Castleton by a range of hills.The township of Castleton contains about 2,900 acres., "TheDuke of Devonshire has the nominal appointment of Constable of the Castle, and is lessee of the honor, or manor, and forest of the Peak, of which Castleton was till of late years esteemed a member.Courts are held for Castleton as a distinct manor, extending over many of the townships of the Peak.....The civil subdivisions of

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