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Listed Building: FORMER TARGET WALL AND FIRING BUTTS, NORTH LANE (1268382)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 950, 6, 10002
Date assigned 05 July 1996
Date last amended

Description

'SK 34 NW BELPER NORTH LANE 950- /6/10002 Former Target Wall and Firing Butts. II Former firing range. Circa 1800, the target wall dated 1800. The range is comprised of a tall tapering target wall, aligned north east-south west. approx. 25 metres long and 5 metres high. The wall is built of coursed squared gritstone, with a heavy flat gritstone coping. To the south east of the wall are a group of 5 regularly- spaced rectangular coursed stone firing butts or platforms, the first being approx 150 metres from the wall, and spaced every 25 metres thereafter. HISTORY: the firing range was built for the local militia, The Belper Volunteer Battalion, raised by Strutt family who established the textile factory communities at Belper and Milford. Lt. Cl. Joseph Strutt was the battalion commander. The range was used during the Napoleonic Wars, and again in 1860, during the Boer War and the First World War. The firing range is important evidence of the part played by local militias in the national defence strategy of the early C19, and is a rare survival of the period. Listing NGR: SK3415845879.'

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Sources (1)

  • Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1268382?section=official-list-entry.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 34158 45879 (point)
Map sheet SK34NW
Civil Parish BELPER, AMBER VALLEY, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Dec 28 2022 7:40PM

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