Track to Bole Hill Quarries, near Hathersage.

This is the track which leads down from the Hathersage Road to the Bole Hill quarries, adjacent to Lawrence Field in the Peak District National Park, near Hathersage.

The track was used to bring materials, including steam locomotives, to the upper parts of the quarries, which were active in the early years of the 20th century. This photo is looking up towards the Hathersage Road near Surprise View Corner. There may have been a railway laid on this portion, or else materials were brought in this way by steam traction engine to the quarry, where there was definitely a network of quarry railway lines with locomotives hauling stone wagons to the top of the Padley Incline. The quarries were worked on a major industrial scale to provide stone for the construction of the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden dams.

The quarries were also worked for grindstones and pulp stones. Immediately adjacent to this locality are the dozens of pulp stones (some visible in this photo), originally destined for a Swedish paper mill, but left abandoned here before they could be shipped out due to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939.

More information here:
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