Monument record MDR9412 - Retaining Wall, between Sheep Pasture Top & Steeple Grange, Cromford & High Peak Railway
Type and Period (1)
- REVETMENT (Hanoverian to Victorian - 1831 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- Scheduled Monument 1007031: RAILWAY EMBANKMENT NORTH OF WIRKSWORTH
- World Heritage Site Buffer Zone
Full Description
NGR: SK 29640 56045 - SK 28850 55483. Drystone boundary wall, with large, roughly dressed blocks, approximately 1.2m high. The wall is partly located behind a fence and away from the trackbed (present day footpath), it turns back to run next to the track near the milepost [SMR 29709] at the corner of a field. It becomes a retaining wall approximately 1m high where the trackbed is raised on a slight embankment. It is 2.5m high at approximately SK 29505 55922 with small stone buttresses. The wall is tumbled down in the area around a boundary marker [SMR 29711] for about 100m. In the location of two bridges [SMR 29717 & SMR 9735] it becomes a large retaining wall, approximately 5m high, for an embankment. The construction is different in this location, it is still of drystone construction, but has large rectangular, dressed blocks, there are also some slight buttresses in the vicinity of the bridge. The wall forms part of the SAM in the location of the second bridge [SMR 9735]. (1)
Sources/Archives (10)
- <1> SDR19352 Archive: Jessop, O. 2003. Cromford & High Peak Railway and Peak Forest Tramway Survey. ARCUS 738b. Feature number: 70.
- <2> SDR19353 Photograph: ARCUS. 2003. Cromford & High Peak Railway and Peak Forest Tramway Survey, Project 738b. Digital photograph. 103, 106-107, 121.
- <3> SDR19350 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 2003. OS Landline (2003) from EDINA Digimap. 1:2000.
- <4> SDR18789 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1882. OS County Series, 1st edition, scale 1:2500 (c. 25" to one mile). XXXIV. 10/11.
- <5> SDR19351 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 2002. OS Explorer 0L24 (2002).
- <6> SDR19349 Bibliographic reference: Rimmer, A. 1998. The Cromford and High Peak Railway. p. 5.
- <7> SDR19340 Bibliographic reference: Blakemore, M & Mosley, D. 2003. Railways of the Peak District. p. 44, 47.
- <8> SDR19344 Bibliographic reference: Jones, N & Bentley, M. 2000. 'Onwards to Cromford and High Peak Junction', Scenes from the Past, 37. p. 51, 53, 58-60.
- <9> SDR18890 Bibliographic reference: Marshall, J. 1996. The Cromford & High Peak Railway. p. 60, 78.
- <10> SDR19341 Bibliographic reference: Coleford, I C. 1996. The Cromford and High Peak Railway. p. 9, 18.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 2941 5586 (871m by 610m) (Approximate) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CROMFORD, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE |
| Civil Parish | WIRKSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- EDR1790
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Record last edited
Jan 9 2018 4:37PM