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the rock on the left bears the mark in the photo on the right,is it a benchmark or a mark made when nearby Pike Low was a burial cairn? Joanna Campbell one of my friends & a Ranger from Langsett found it whilst we were out on one her days as a trainee.This one wasn't on the map or notes.Joanna claims it as hers & a competition still exists as to who can find more "marks "
W.M. - believed to be the mark of Wilson Mappin, this one is on Wet Slack Ridge at Grid Ref.SK2219593000
RRW the boundary marker for the Rimington Wilsons of Broomhead Hall - this is on Sugden Top - Grid Ref. SK 1976897319.
the base of New Cross on Cartledge Flat at Grid Ref.SK2161092872 - the stone behind is the locating socket for the missing upright.
this is Robin Hoods chair,off Dukes Drive at Grid Ref.SK2179594394 see the book The Best of Sheffield Clarion Ramblers -Wards Piece.
On Emlin Moor
on Rook Cabin Flat at Grid Ref.SK23659440 - TB may be the mark for Deakin Moorhall
byebye
on Barnside Moor this is one of the boundary markers for Quibell at SK2281598570
on Barnside Moor close to the one far left this at SK2282898631
on Broomhead Moor these 2 boundary stones at Grid Ref.SK2347595023 form part of a large group spread out,but visible from one another.
how did these footprints get on Wetstones?
ABOVE,ABOVE TOP PHOTO,LEFT & BELOW LEFT-wreckage of the Stirling LJ628 crashed 21/7/44 on Upper Commons Grid Ref.SK20159552 all crew survived - photo taken in 2003 before most of it was removed by The Stirling Project in January 2005 with the help of an R.A.F. Chinook - presumably for restoration projects.
BENCHMARKS - usually a horizontal line with an arrow point touching it chiselled into rocks,walls or buildings ( sometimes they can be a square with a circle in one corner )-by surveyors from The Ordnance Survey starting in 1840 & discontinued in the 1960s when aerial surveys & then Global Positioning Systems took over - these were used to determine the height above sea level for that particular spot by placing an Angle iron in the line and bracketing (bench ) a levelling rod.If the precise height of one was known then the precise height of its neighbour could be determined using theodolites.These heights were determined from FUNDAMENTAL BENCHMARKS -this is a granite pillar built over an underground chamber and sited directly onto the bedrock so that they cannot move as other benchmarks possibly could.
The Ebenezer Stone ( see The Best of Sheffield Clarion Ramblers -WARDS PIECE) a boundary stone between Jessops and Cadmans Moors at Grid Ref.SK2350292768
facing South in the wall alongside Dukes Drive at Grid Ref.SK2340994870 note the benchmark. BB may possibly be the mark for Deakins Moorhall although their other markers bear their name.
This is the FUNDAMENTAL BENCHMARK (see text box on right) on the STRINES ROAD in the railed enclosure at Grid Ref.SK2449694691.
right,below right & below left - these 3 can be found on High Stones, South Yorkshires highest point -SK18759440
- a member of the public reports an unexploded shell from the Midhope Moor A.F.V.R. ranges close to the path between Crow Stones & Bull Stones - the Bomb Squad are flown in on Sierra Yankee 99 the police helicopter & a few grouse and mountain hares get the fright of their lives
ABOVE & BELOW on Back Tor the inscription reads - when nature created (wo)man it created a monster
this one is on Dukes Drive Grid Ref.SK2211894634
horse trough below Bradfield Gate
FELLOW RANGER JOANNA CAMPBELL LAYS CLAIM TO FINDING HALF OF THESE INSCRIPTIONS - IT BEING A RACE TO FIND ONE FIRST - OUR OTHER FELLOW RANGERS THINK WE ARE BARKING!!!!
this, along with the other marks below and a long chiselled boundary line can be found on Margery Stones at Grid Ref.SK1896895643
possibly the mark of William Thorpe,Hancock Farm,Derwent - this is on the small boulder behind Margery Hill Trig Point
A.W. -Arthur Wilson -from Howden Farm and/or a Duke of Norfolk employee.
the inscription (right) reads "Mary and Jack engaged here March 5th 1898"
Cautley Spout after the worst weather for 17 years
members of The Upper Hordron Synchronised Fell Walking Display Team rehearsing their moves on The Calf in The Howgills
LEFT & BELOW LEFT - SPRING FED WATER TROUGH IN LANGSETT WOODS
ABOVE - classic transport on the Bowber Head Campsite in The Howgills see www.cumbriaclassiccoaches.co.uk - the blue coach with FREE SERVICE destination board runs thro` the area to Brough Farmers Market on Saturdays ,- there is no heating in the drivers cab!!!
Winscar Res. from Snailsden Moor
this & pictures to right - Liberator Bomber to the East of Holme Moss Mast
