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Barren Clough Tunnel, Derbyshire, June 2019
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<blockquote data-quote="Roderick" data-source="post: 363798" data-attributes="member: 51570"><p>There is a great little book about the the Peak Forest Tramway by David Ripley which details the features along it's route. The tunnel took it under the road near where the bypass now goes over the road. The Buxworth end of it which became part of the Ferodo test track was blocked up by the bypass. The other entrance is still there, you go through a collapsed bit of wall opposite the main Ferodo car park entrance then down into the tramway cutting past the care home. There are bars on the tunnel entrance with a gate and a camera facing out though it looks old and disused. That said last time I tried to dig under the gate (soft ground) I found the camera had been moved after my last visit (to check out the lock) to point directly at where I would be entering . With a good torch you can see where there has been a roof collapse about where there is a substation and car park for the building next to it but it looks like you can get past that. I expect if I asked around I could fix up a formal visit eventually but that wouldn't be as much fun! </p><p></p><p>There is a grotto supposed to have belonged to Bowden Hall behind the ruin which people think is the old Drunken Monkey, is that the arch you mean? I've not seen those pits by the river but dyers used pits / tanks like that - there are some good big ones near Broad Bottom. This area was full of textile related industry, in Chapel there were workshops making springs and cut nails for chairs etc and even a stuffing mill which broke down old cloth which was good for nothing else and made it into stuffing /wadding for furniture. Where exactly can i find those holes, I would like to look at them this weekend if possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roderick, post: 363798, member: 51570"] There is a great little book about the the Peak Forest Tramway by David Ripley which details the features along it's route. The tunnel took it under the road near where the bypass now goes over the road. The Buxworth end of it which became part of the Ferodo test track was blocked up by the bypass. The other entrance is still there, you go through a collapsed bit of wall opposite the main Ferodo car park entrance then down into the tramway cutting past the care home. There are bars on the tunnel entrance with a gate and a camera facing out though it looks old and disused. That said last time I tried to dig under the gate (soft ground) I found the camera had been moved after my last visit (to check out the lock) to point directly at where I would be entering . With a good torch you can see where there has been a roof collapse about where there is a substation and car park for the building next to it but it looks like you can get past that. I expect if I asked around I could fix up a formal visit eventually but that wouldn't be as much fun! There is a grotto supposed to have belonged to Bowden Hall behind the ruin which people think is the old Drunken Monkey, is that the arch you mean? I've not seen those pits by the river but dyers used pits / tanks like that - there are some good big ones near Broad Bottom. This area was full of textile related industry, in Chapel there were workshops making springs and cut nails for chairs etc and even a stuffing mill which broke down old cloth which was good for nothing else and made it into stuffing /wadding for furniture. Where exactly can i find those holes, I would like to look at them this weekend if possible. [/QUOTE]
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