Virgin and the Gypsy, The

Date: 1970
Director: Christopher Miles
Production Company: Kenwood Productions

Stars: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Fay Compton, Maurice Denham
Location(s): Derbyshire

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Storyline:

Two sisters return to the English countryside and one becomes romantically involved with a gypsy.

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The Rectory in fictional Colgrave. Raper Lodge off Coalpit Lane, Youlgreave in Derbyshire with the River Lathkill flowing in the foreground.

Without getting very muddy on the marshy ground, this is the best angle possible. PW

Inside the parish church, the Rector delivers his sermon. All Saints church in Youlgreave.

It turns out that the cross to the left was a prop. PW

An establishing shot picks out the canopy detail at Colgrave's station. Cromford railway station, Lea Road, Cromford in Derbyshire.

More colourful these days. PW

The train pulls into the station, bringing Lucille and Yvette home from school in the south of England. Cromford railway station on the line running between Derby and Matlock with Willersley Tunnel in the background.

Whilst I take the shot, JT and his Wife promenade along the opposite platform. PW

As the girls cross the bridge, the train departs. Cromford railway station with the bridge over Lea Road and the River Derwent ahead of the train.

This side of the station is now used as holiday accommodation. PW

Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and Lucille are driven to the Rectory. Main Street, Youlgreave. The village is about 5 miles south of Bakewell.

10am Sunday morning and its already busy with traffic! (NW)

The gig passes through Colgrave. Church Street in Youlgreave, Derbyshire.

Taken between a gap in the seemingly never ending stream of cross-overs, 4x4s and SUVs. PW

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As the sermon comes to an end, the gate is opened onto the Rectory driveway.

The Rector's daughters approach the family home. Coalpit Bridge over the River Lathkill in the background.

The bridge parapet can just be made out in the foliage. PW

Whilst their luggage is attended to, the sisters head up to the house to be met by their father. Raper Lodge off Coalpit Lane, Youlgreave.

It looks like the set dressers went to town on this location with an extension, an entrance and a lovely garden all added. PW

On another day, Leo drives Yvette, Lucille, Bob and Ella through the village. Church Street in Youlgreave with All Saints church in the distance.

Different focal length, same street. PW

The young friends motor into the countryside. Conksbury Bridge at Conksbury, Derbyshire identified by Neil Webster.

Neil found that the fishing jetty no longer exists, but struts are still visible in the river.

A dam is seen as the Alvis passes. Derwent Reservoir's dam spanning the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire.

The Derwent Dam captured by Neil Webster who adds "The dam was designed by engineer Edward Sandeman and built between 1902 and 1916."

Derwent Dam, holding back the water of the River Derwent. The Upper Derwent Valley was also seen in 'The Dam Busters'.

Neil Webster advises that the dam contains over 1.2 million tonnes of stone.

Men are watched as they work mid-way across the dam. The reservoirs lie roughly halfway between Glossop and Sheffield.

Neil discovered that thousands of navvies dug the foundations, hauled stone and built the identical Howden and Derwent dams with grit stone quarried from nearby Grindleford.

Leo (Jeremy Bulloch) waits for Yvette to return to the car. The dam at the south end of the Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire.

The safety rail incorporates names of cities the reservoir serves: Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield. Image be Neil Webster.

After an altercation with a Gypsy whilst crawling behind his slow moving cart, Leo follows him to his camp site. Beeley Moor at Beeley in Derbyshire located by Neil Webster. Lat/long: 53.21157399931161, -1.576716282028075

Neil proves the location explaining that Hell Bank Plantation, on the left, now obscures a lot of the views seen from the camp in the film.

Ella (Margo Andrew) puts up a poster outside Colgrave Village Hall. Actually it's Youlgreave Village Hall on Holywell Lane.

Alteration to the hall's entrance have been made. PW

After buying sweets, Uncle Fred (Norman Bird) leaves the village shop. The junction of Church Street, Main Street and Moor Lane in Youlgreave with the Youth Hostel, formerly a Co-op store, in the background.

Local lads take the part of extras in this shot. PW

Fred joins the queue for the bus. In the centre of Youlgreave's market place stands a circular water tank, or conduit head, known locally as "The Fountain".

A fence now stops the tank from escaping. PW

As the bus arrives to pick up her uncle, Yvette cycles to the Gypsy's camp. Moor Lane in Youlgreave.

Looking the other way from the water tank. PW

Yvette rides past the Village Hall on her way to visit the Gypsy. Holywell Lane in Youlgreave.

Taken from outside the Village Hall. PW

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Major Eastwood (Mark Burns), Yvette and Mrs Fawcett (Honor Blackman) leave his house to go swimming on the lake. Swiss Cottage on the shore of Swiss Lake at Chatsworth in Derbyshire.

Major Eastwood and Yvette drying off after their swim. The Swiss Lake at Chatsworth.

Neil Webster found that the man-made lake is currently drained for what looked like bank maintenance work.

Yvette arrives at a secluded building where she finds the Gypsy inside with another woman. Neil Webster discovered Alport Mill at Alport, Derbyshire.

Captured the former corn mill from Alport Lane by Neil.