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The '''[[Sheffield]] to [[Hathersage]] [[Toll road|turnpike]]''' was an early road through the English Peak District, which was improved by a [[turnpike trust]] in the 18th century. The road may have originated as a [[Roman road]]. |
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==Turnpikes== |
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During the 18th century Sheffield's burgeoning industry sought new customers and markets for their products, which required samples and purchases to be transported far and wide. Existing communication to large towns like Birmingham and London to the south were adequate, but markets to the west were largely inaccessible due to the [[High Peak, Derbyshire]] composed of high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak of the [[Peak District]] with its moors, bogs, and steep [[escarpment]]s called 'edges'. In 1758, the road from Little [[Sheffield]] over the moors to Hathersage, through [[Castleton]] to Sparrow Pit Gate on the Chapel-en-le-Frith Road was turnpiked and a distribution system was provided by carriers financed by the more enterprising captains of industry. |
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==Chaps== |
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We have grown from strength to strength and have been firmly established as one of the largest and most esteemed travel operators in Sri Lanka and around the region. The key to our success lies in a continuous commitment to service excellence, reliability and competitive pricing. |
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Chaps were [[Packhorse]] drivers who assembled at an inn adjoined the Cutlers' Hall, Church Street, [[Sheffield]]. |
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{{quotation|The traders who acted as distributing agents were called "chaps" or "chapmen". They were mostly Scotch or Irish, with some English. Their chief resort was "The Bird-in-Hand", Church Lane. The house adjoined the Cutlers' Hall, standing indeed on part of its present site. When a "chap" arrived, the ostler went round to inform the manufacturers of the fact, and received a penny from each one for his trouble.... |
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"The [[Sheffield]] Directory of I787 gives a list of more than a score carriers' carts regularly plying to all parts of the country on stated days. Some of these started from their owners' warehouses; others from the "Tontine", "The Angel"; "The Grey Horse" and "The Bay Horse", High Street; the "Travellers", Westbar; the "Royal Oak", King Street; the "Black Swan", Snighill; "The Mitre", Fargate; the "Chandlers' Arms" and the "Yellow Lion", Bull Stake; the "Bird-in-Hand", Brinsworth Orchard; and the "King's Head", Change Alley. They took a fearful time to make their journeys. A collection of old letters from customers in the country is full of wails over the non-arrival of goods ordered long before, and over the carelessness and indifference of the carriers. The coaches did something to cure this, when urgency required speed, but their tariff, even when reduced to 1½d. per pound, was prohibitive in the case of heavy goods.<ref name="Rem"/>}} |
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==The Journey Via Ringinglow== |
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{{quotation|To get on to the London Road the traveller had to go down Coalpit Lane and Button Lane to Little [[Sheffield]] (a group of poor and time-worn cottages). The road ran across the gorse-clad swampy common called [[Sheffield]] Moor, forded the Porter Brook over which there was only a foot-bridge; thence up a sharp rise to Highfield, and so down Goose Green to Heeley. There the steep old lane, which some may remember, had to be climbed to Newfield Green. This, at the end of the seventeenth century, '...appeared to be a very ancient way, being worne very deep. [[Sheffield]] people, both before and after the civil wars, had got into the habit of avoiding this toilsome route by going through the Park over Sheaf Bridge (at the bottom of Dixon Lane) in at the Park gate (where now is the junction of Broad Street and South Street), and out, by a line represented by the present Cricket Inn Road, at another gate on Gleadless Moor.<ref name="Rem">"Reminiscences OF [[Sheffield]]" by R.E.Leader CHAPTER V "From Chapmen to merchants - From packhorses to coaches", transcribed by Eric Yule [http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~exy/]</ref>}} |
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Fording [[Porter Brook]] at 'Little [[Sheffield]]', the team climbed London Road to Heeley, thence up Sharrow Lane to Sharrow Head, pausing for water and refreshment at "The Stag's Head Inn",<ref>Rev. Mackenzie, minister at St. Paul's Church, Pinstone St, lived at Sharrow Head and built the Stag Hotel in 1805 to replace a much older inn (which he bought and had pulled down) The building, at that time, was at the end of his garden. The new inn was named 'The Stag's Head' which was the crest of the Mackenzie family. [http://www.netheredge.org.uk/photos.html]</ref> Psalter Lane. The toll-road continued past Brincliffe Quarry to Banner Cross, [[Ecclesall Road]]. (The old toll-house at Banner Cross was demolished in the early 1900s.) When a toll-bar was established at [[Hunters Bar]] this new section of toll-road along [[Ecclesall Road]] became a less arduous alternative route. |
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From Banner Cross the toll-road climbed Ringinglow Road to Bents Green where the "Hammer and Pincers" provided refreshment, water, and repairs to the animals' metal [[Horseshoe|shoes]]. The hamlet of [[Ringinglow]] was served by another toll-booth, known colloquially as "The Round House" opposite "The Norfolk Arms". |
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Here the road turns south west over Houndkirk (a.k.a. Ankirk) Moor to "The Fox House" where huge [[Millstone Grit]] stone sets centered 4 ft. 8½ inches apart, prevented cart-wheels from sinking into the soft, peaty, [[moorland]] soil. (Reputedly established by [[Julius Caesar]] as [[Standard gauge]] for [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] chariots{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} this measurement is still in use today and Houndkirk Road is still called "The Roman Road" by local people as is the Long Causeway, Lodge Moor.) |
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==The Journey via Stanage Edge== |
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A further turnpike road to [[Hathersage]] and on into Derbyshire via [[Hope, Derbyshire|Hope]] and [[Castleton, Derbyshire|Castleton]] ran through Lodge Moor over [[Stanage Edge]] where passengers had to disembark, assisting coachmen to unharness the team of horses and manhandle coaches over the precipitous [[gritstone]] [[escarpment]]. Stanage Pole,({{gbmapping|SK2468784429}}) a wooden stake some {{convert|20|ft|m|abbr=on}}, high erected at the brow of the hill, provides a way-mark to travellers in bad weather. |
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Long Causeway, as the turnpike is now called, followed the old [[Roman road]]. It is widely believed that this track follows the line of a Roman road running from [[Templeborough]] to the fort at ''Navio'' ([[Brough-on-Noe]]), but archaeologists have cast doubt on this.<ref>Barnett J. & Smith K. ''English Heritage book of the Peak District''. Batsford, 1997</ref> During the early 19th century a section of the turnpike at Lodge Moor was lost when the three [[Redmires reservoirs]] were built by 'Sheffield Waterworks', after obtaining an Act of Parliament authorising their construction and an aqueduct to Hadfield Dam, Crookes was completed in 1830. |
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==The demise of the turnpikes== |
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In 1893 the [[Totley Tunnel]] (6,230-yards/3.5 miles/5.7 km long) was completed on the former [[London Midland and Scottish Railway]] (LMS) [[Manchester]] to [[Sheffield]] railway beneath Totley Moor making it the longest mainline railway tunnel in England, and rail-travel superseded the old turnpike routes. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Keighley and Kendal Turnpike|Keighley and Kendal Road]] - The Turnpike through [[Craven]]. |
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==References== |
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* [http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=7151 Sheffield History] |
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* [[Sheffield]] and Buxton Turpike Road. 1758. Road from [[Sheffield]] to Tideswell: [[Sheffield Archives]], Fairbank Collection, F.B. 13, pp. 38–49; and F.B. 14, pp. 36–37. |
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T3 (Treks, Trips & Tea) Friendly Sri Lankan Tours is a unique tour service provider consolidated in to hill country in the Paradise of Indian ocean.
T3 Friendly is one of the largest and most renowned travel and tour operators in Sri Lanka.
T3 Friendly guarantees a convenient and hassle free journey, from the very first point of contact to your return. We have made it our business to exceed the travel expectations of every customer; and this service-driven philosophy has paid off through the years with customers becoming our friends.
Customer retention in the increasingly demanding travel industry is just one of the many indicators that reflect our strength in this trade. T3 Friendly believes in building long term relationships with her customers.
We have grown from strength to strength and have been firmly established as one of the largest and most esteemed travel operators in Sri Lanka and around the region. The key to our success lies in a continuous commitment to service excellence, reliability and competitive pricing.
We continuously strive to reinvent and improve ourselves by investing in our staff, state-of-the-art infrastructure and services.
There is definitely a package that will suit your needs and budget at T3 Friendly.
Contact
T3 Friendly No.299/2/11, Puwakgaha Hena Road, Meegoda, Sri Lanka Tel: +94 776969970, +94 777633899