Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: geo:lon=-1.631078

This is the lower portion of the Bolehill Quarries (Padley) Incline near Grindleford, Derbyshire. The Bolehill Quarries were active in the early years of the 20th century (1901-1914) with gritstone extraction on a massive scale for the construction of the Howden and Derwent Dams a few miles away. Stone was transported down the incline and shunted on to wagons on the main line for further transportation up to the dams sites. The flat area on the left was the location of a group of huts for the quarry and incline workers. A link to an old photo taken during the working of the incline is here: www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/DBY/Grindleford/BoleHi... In this photo, one of the huts can just be seen in the extreme top right. At some time after the quarries and the incline ceased operation in 1914, two of the huts were relocated to Padley Chapel a short distance away to the south.