SPW020633 SCOTLAND (1928) [Unlocated]. Unlocated moorland. An oblique aerial photograph.

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Details

Title [SPW020633] Unlocated moorland. An oblique aerial photograph.
Reference SPW020633
Date 1928
Link Canmore Collection item 1256391
Place name
Parish
District
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 0, 0
Longitude / Latitude -7.556448482059, 49.766185796754
National Grid Reference SV000000

Pins

Are these parallel lines evidence of peat cutting? If so, it's happened on quite a large scale here. Moorland where peat has been extracted would narrow it down a little bit.

Rebecca
Friday 1st of November 2013 03:30:29 PM
Maybe it shows different vegetation where land drain pipes are dug in underneath. Sometimes these wide bands are evidence of medieval field systems- strip lynchets. On moorland it's more likely that it's drainage and improvement?

Will Wallace
Saturday 24th of May 2014 01:09:24 PM
This is an rope-incline railway - looks like a winding engine building here - maybe the Cromford and High Peak - which linked the Cromford Canal to Rowsley on the main line.

Pete65
Saturday 4th of May 2013 06:27:14 PM
If it is a railway, it's not the CHPR. Their inclines were double track all the way down. There were other inclines, though, that used this short passing loop arrangement.

Maitland
Monday 20th of January 2014 04:08:01 PM
A passing place on a single-track railway line?

ewnmcg
Sunday 29th of July 2012 05:46:41 PM
Unlikely, as the geometry and scale of the feature does not fit that of such features on a railway. It looks much more like a farm track where a new route has been selected around a wet patch.... indeed farm tracks, with tractor/wagon ruts, do have some the of the characteristics of railway lines if not the conventional geometry.

Maurice
Friday 4th of January 2013 02:07:04 PM
Farm Buildings ?

BigglesH
Monday 16th of July 2012 03:14:20 AM

User Comment Contributions

Looks to me like a minor road or farm track crossing largely level counryside - I don't see the evidence for it being a railway but happy to be corrected.

Calchfaen
Saturday 31st of August 2013 04:13:11 PM
Looks very like Elsdon Northumbria, but can't find an exact match

TomRobin
Tuesday 20th of November 2012 11:28:17 PM