'Birchinlee' is the site of a village built by the Derwent Valley Water Board for the workers and their families who constructed the Derwent and Howden Dams between 1902 and 1916. Most of the workers had previously been engaged in the construction, in Wales, of the Elan Valley Reservoirs where the accommodation was very basic. At Birchinlee, a "model village" was built; its infrastructure included hospitals, school, canteen (pub), post office, shops, recreation hall, public bath house, police station, railway station, rubbish dump with incinerator, and much else. The population rose to 900 people.// [Wiki]

Although overgrown - the patches of levelled ground where the roads and houses once stood.. can still be seen today amongst the trees .. [Dj]