Grin Low is a 434 metre hill south of Buxton. In the perverse language of the Peak District, a Low was a height, or hill, just as the “peaks” in the Peak District are normally rounded hills, not pointed peaks. Grin Low was quarried for limestone from the 17th century, and is now an interesting mix of original natural landscape, the scarred remains of limekilns and spoil heaps, and the cleaned up tourist attraction of Grin Low Country Park. The Country Park is based on the 100 acre woodland planted in 1820 to hide the quarried areas from the gentry visiting the spa town of Buxton. The biggest quarry is now a Caravan Club site. My painting is of the Country Park’s focal point, Solomon’s Temple, a folly built in 1894 to provide work for the population, and erected on the site of a Neolithic burial mound at the top of Grin Low.