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The Misk Hills consist of a gently undulating sandstone plateau between Hucknall and Annesley in the county of Nottinghamshire in the North East Midlands of England. They offer views Southwards across the town of Hucknall, and the City of Nottingham. They are locally considered to be the first hills in the Pennine Chain, and rise to a high point of 170 metres above sea level from the flat plains to the east. The hills are the source of three minor watercourses, the Gilt Brook, the Whyburn (Hucknall's 'Town brook') and Farleys Brook. They separate the Leen Valley from the Erewash Valley. ==Literary Links== The view over Hucknall from the easternmost height in the range, Diadem Hill, provided the setting for ''The Dream'', a poem by Lord Byron, the Romantic English Poet who lived locally in Newstead Abbey. ::I saw two beings in the hues of youth ::Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, ::Green and of mild declivity, the last ::As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, ::Save that there was no sea to lave its base, ::But a most living landscape, and the wave ::Of woods and corn-fields, and the abodes of men ::Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke ::Arising from such rustic roofs: the hill ::Was crowned with a peculiar diadem ::Of trees, in circular array, so fixed, ::Not by the sport of nature, but of man The Misk Hills were also the subject of Byron's Poem 'The Hills of Annesley' ::Hills of Annesley, bleak and barren, ::Where my thoughtless childhood strayed, ::How the northern tempests, warring, ::How about thy tufted shade! ::Now no more, the hours beguiling ::Former favourite haunts I see, ::Now no more, my Mary smiling, ::Makes ye seem a heaven to me. The Misk Hills were also mentioned by local author D. H. Lawrence, in his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers,〔() 〕 and Nottingham-born writer Alan Sillitoe wrote a poem entitled ''View from Misk Hill''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Misk Hills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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