Sheep Fold at S Edge of Upper Moor, Hope Woodlands
Description:
A ruined two compartment sheepfold built against the outside of the highest enclosures adjacent to a moor gate. The fold is about 16m long by 6m wide. The outside walls are tumbled but the internal cross walls still stand to full high (c.1.5m). A small niche (0.25m high 0.3m wide) in the cross wall may have been for a lantern to give light in the fold at lambing time or possibly a bee skep (In the Lake District Bee Boles were built into folds on the edge of the heather moors to give protection to the straw skeps when the bees were feeding on the blooming heather). The adjacent gate was heavily used (see Site No. 60732), the site and its surroundings are bracken infested (Beamish H 1987). NOTE:Cross Ref, Site No. 60732
Bevan notes that it is not shown on the 1839 tithe map (anon.), which suggests that it was built between this date and 1880 (Ordnance Survey) if the tithe map depicted all such features. [SNA62136]
Country: England
County: Derbyshire
District: High Peak
Parish: Edale
Grid Reference:
SK141869
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 414184, 386944
Period/Subject: 1800 - 1900 - SHEEP FOLD
Identifiers:
[ADS] Depositor Id: 60731*0
[ADS] Associated Id: HBSMR Id: MNA112546
[ADS] Import RCN: NTSMR-MNA112546
People Involved:
[Publisher] National Trust
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