Ebenezer Rhodes, on his first visit to the Via Gellia about 175 years ago, wasn't particularly impressed. He had clearly changed his mind when he went there for the second time. He described the experience in "Peak Scenery"^[1]:

"In whatever direction we looked, the country was beautiful. The road we had passed was marked by a continued range of eminences, the outlines of which played into, and were blended with each other, in pleasing and almost endless variety"^[1]. Rhodes went on to say that the "high sloping acclivities, chiefly covered with hazels, and sparingly sprinkled with dwarf oak and ash, mark each side of the road"^[1]. He also mentioned that the Via Gellia was so named because of Philip Gell, the owner of Hopton Hal at that timel.

This postcard is of Rider Point and was posted in 1909. Many postcards of the period had a side strip as this card has, designed for writing a message on. The other side was for the address only.