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Geology and landscape
[edit]The sedimentary Millstone Grit rock that forms the upland plateau of Stanton Moor has is origins 320 million years ago, in the Upper Carboniferous period.[1] Rivers flowing north, across what is now the English midlands, were eroding a range of recently uplifted mountains called the Wales Brabant High (at the western end of the London–Brabant Massif).[2] The resulting sand and grit settled as sediment in a shallow sea known as the Pennine Basin, which produced, over millions of years, vast areas and great depths of Millstone Grit across northern England. A large expanse of gritstone moorland lies to the east of the Derwent Valley,[3] so Stanton Moor, along with Harthill Moor, are westerly outliers for the 'Ashover grit' unit, (now renamed 'Corbar Grit'[4]) and is notable as it includes zones that were prone to large slumping events during their formation. This caused the stone to end up as massive blocks, lacking the strongly bedded structure of some areas. When quarried it can be cut and shaped into large slabs and blocks as required.[5] The whole of the moor and its active and disused quarries are designated a Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Site.[6]
This layer of Millstone Grit forms an erosion-resistant cap across the top of Stanton Moor, with comparitively slight gradients. The highest elevation is at the 'Trig point' near the southern end of the moor, at 323 metres (1,060 ft), but the gentle slope means it is still at above 290 metres (950 ft) at its northern end, 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) away. The moor is, however, an upland 'outlier', surrounded by valleys and lower-lying areas. And where the gritstone ends the gradients are extreme. Particularly on the northern and eastern sides, a line of cliffs marks the abrupt transition known as 'The Edge'. (Many of Derbyshire's gritstone cliffs are known as 'edges'[7]). Below the line of cliffs the land continues to fall steeply down to the valley of the River Derwent, some 200 metres (660 ft) below. On the western side the slope is less severe and more confused due to extensive, now disused, quarries.[8] The gritstone gives way to the underlying mudstones towards the valley of the Ivy Bar Brook, which joins the River Lathkill between Stanton-in-Peak and Alport. The valley runs through Carboniferous Limestone at the northern end, which was extensively mined for lead from the 17th to mid 19th centuries.[9]
Land ownership and land use
[edit]Waste, enclosure and 'improvement'
[edit]Until 1809 Stanton Moor was common land. Both the lords of the manor and the various farmsteads of the parish would have had the right to make use of the land for grazing, wood gathering and possibly 'stone getting' (making use of surface rocks either to make querns and millstones or as building material).[8] The open (unfarmed) land appears to have been more extensive than now, reaching to Ivy Bar Brook to the west.[10] The Stanton Enclosure Act of 1809 divided up the land amongst the various claimants. Much of the land became private farmland, and the moor was divided between the two principle manors in the parish. These were the Thornhill family, living at Stanton Hall, and the Duke of Rutland, as part of his Haddon Hall estate.[11] The two landowners took the opportunity to rationalise their holdings with a landswap, ending with Bache Thornhill in possession of almost all of the mooreland - where it has remained in the Thornhill family estate to the present. Among the land holdings of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland, he retained a strip of land running along the western side of the moor, including some of the steep scarp slopes. Whether in cooperation or rivalry, several ornamental rides were developed on both properties during the 19th century. The Haddon land was sold in 1920, and the 11 hectares (27 acres) strip, having been bought privately, was donated to the National Trust along with land and buildings at Ilam Park in 1934. The donor appears to have been Sir Robert McDougall, part of the family whose milling firm merged to create Rank Hovis McDougall in 1957.[12]
Through the 19th century, in possession of the major part of the moor, William Pole Thornhill, grandson of Bache Thornhill, looked for various opportunities for 'improvement'. In particular the moorland was planted with trees - fir, larch, oak and Spanish chestnut - such that a map of 1840 shows it as given over to woodland.[10] As well being deemed more productive, the moor appears to have been conciously made ornamental. Thornhill built a memorial tower in 1832 (see below), the aforementioned rides were created to encourage excursions, various of the rock faces were embellished with carved motifs such as the deeply-carved coronets of the 'Duke of York Stone' and 'Duchess of Sutherland Stone'.[13] Increasing numbers of visitors also resulted in notice being taken of some of the archaeological features, with the antiquarian Thomas Bateman sketching the Nine Ladies stone circle, and excavating the nearby circle at Doll Tor in the 1850s.[14]
In 1915, the need for timber during the first world war meant that clearfelling of the by now mature trees of the woodland plantation began, organised by a unit of the Canadian Army. A wagonway was installed to haul the timber to a sawmill on the southern edge of the moor.[15] There has been some regrowth of woodland around the fringes of the moor, especially on the National Trust lands on the eastern 'Edge'. The plateau has mainly returned to being open land with bilberry and heather. The absence of Ancient woodland indicator species suggests it had been clear of woodland for many centuries before the plantation.[16]
Quarrying
[edit]Another of the enterprises of William Pole Thornhill was the introduction of industrial quarrying, which bagan some time before the 1870s and expanded through the later 19th century, particularly along the northeastern escarpement.[14] By the 20th century there were multiple quarries on the south, west and northern fringes. With the advent of planning permission, and to help meet the post-war demand for building materials, substantial areas of the northern and south-eastern sides of the moor were granted planning permission with no timescale or limitation on use. The letter of permission, from Feb 1952, described the need for “blockstone for building and engineering purposes, grindstones and pulpstones for the paper, glass and steel trades … and kerbstones”.[17]
20thC Planning permission had been granted in 1952 for stone extranction from Stanton Moor Quarry, along the western edge of the moor. The subsequent scheduling of the moor as whole, in 1976, gave some areas the distinction of having both planning consent for quarrying and legal protection from damage.[18] It is unclear what level of quarrying activity was being carried out especially on the 'Stanton Moor Quarries' along the western fringe. A report of 2002 concludes that the appear to have been worked at least episodically during the 1951 to 1986 period, and that in 1998 the National Park was approached for permission to remove stone to assess its potential.[19]
Uses include Crown Courts, Newcastle, Lichfield Cathedral, Burrell Museum, Glasgow and Quayside, Newcastle.[1]
Permissions and modifications - protestors Stanton Moor Principles
Archaeology Stone circles (main=Nine Ladies Cairn excavations in 1920s - many finds (some in local museums?) but also much loss and erroneous reconstruction by the Heathcotes scheduling - nine ladies and whole moor Current state of knowledge Cultural and Spiritual associations
Other features: Tower, rock carvings (main=Andle Stone), mast
The Reform Tower
[edit]Also Known as the 'Earl Grey Memorial Tower', and also as the 'Stanton Tower', was built by William Pole Thornhill (1807-1876), using the local gritstone blocks from his own quarries, to celebrate the passing of the 1832 Reform Act, and to memorialise the then Prime Minister, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. A stone panel originally stood above the doorway, with a carved coronet and 'Earl Grey 1832'. Untill the 1950s the now bricked-up doorway was open to permit access to the top. The inscription panel broke up and fell from its 'niche' in the 1980s.[20]
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Additional features, new to 2025
[edit]As a result of a complete rewrite using Lua Scribuntu, this OSM Location Map template is now substantially improved.
Headline improvements
[edit]- No limit to the number of dots (previously capped at 60).
- Significantly reduced processor time and resource use (cutting page-load times by around 80%)
- Functional equivelance to the previous version. Maps should continue to look 'close to identical' to before.
- ArcText has up to 26 arcs, using any of the capital letters instead of just A, B, C. (Please do not make a map that uses them all)
New label formatting options
[edit]| label-spacing=adds extra space between each letter. Adds the number of pixels. (default =0) (Can finally make wide-spaced text, without having to put real spaces in)| label-height =sets the line height for multi-line labels - ie increases/decreases the gap between lines as a % in relation to the label-size, default = 120
Alternative label-pos terminology
[edit]- As an alternative to 'top,bottom,left,right' label positions, compass points can now be used, including the composite northeast, southeast etc. This means 1 of 8 position options can be selected, without recourse to ldx,ldy repositioning.
New auto-caption options
[edit]- Previously it was possible to specify and 'em' column width, so the captions will spread over multiple columns. It is now also possible to specify the number of columns directly. eg
| auto-caption=columns=3 - Also it is now possible to make the auto-caption list collapsible/collapsed, just by adding either of these words. eg:
| auto=caption=30 collapsedwould give a 30em column width, and a clickable 'toggletext' to show the list. - Default clickable text for this is [Hide/show caption list]. Alternative text can be set using
| toggletext= - e.g.
| auto=caption=collapsed columns=2| toggletext=[Show/Hide the list of battles]
Highlight feature
[edit]- Where a map is used on multiple pages, either from a template or simply by pasting the code, it is often desirable to pick out a particular dot that is the subject of the page, amongst a series of related dots. Some editors have in the past acheived this by using complex
{{#ifeq:}}codes for each dot. It is now possible to define a selection of shape attributes, using shapeH, shape-outlineH, shape-colorH, etc, which will then be applied to whichever dot number is assigned to the|highlight=parameter. When used in a templated map, you might call the map with{{myOSMmap|highlight=4}}. Within the template that sets myOSMmap, and which includes some 'H' attributes, you would then need|highlight={{{highlight|}}}and if the calling page asks for 4, for example, that will be the dot that gets the 'highlight' attributes.
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New shapes
[edit]- Using the css clip-path feature, a range of solid shapes has now been defined. It only gives solid shapes. (A quasi-outline is possible when an outline width is set, but it creates a second, larger shape, in the outline color, beneath the main shape. D or DD after the shape name indicates it has a single or double 'outer line', which is part of the defined shape, so will have the same fill color as the shape itself. The new shapes currently defined are
squareD squareDD triangleD triangleDD circleD circleDD diamond diamondD diamondDD cross crossD fivepointstar fivepointstarD sixpointstar sixpointstarD sevenpointstar sevenpointstarD eightpointstar eightpointstarD ring
(boxD boxDD ellipseD ellipseDD are synonims for their square and circle equivelants)
Legend Box
[edit]- A Legend or Key can be added, to explain what each of the shapes/dots represent. The size of the panel and its position relative to the top left corner of the map are both given in pixels, so the box remains in a fixed position even if the map coords are changed. A centred title line (optional) is followed by as many 'legendItem(n)=' lines as wanted. This identifies the explanation text, the dot-number it relates to, and an optional distance (px) down the box for that line. (If no distance is given it uses the shape height to find the next line distance.) Example:
| legendBox=Map Key,110px80px1px,290px45px
| legendItem1=Defended site,1
- It attempts to automate almost everything, so may not always work as desired. It is possible to use a panel shape and place dots on it using the same process as the rest of the map, which gives more control, but is more work to get in place.
5miles
1:from Kötlujökull to Leirá in 1721, 1755, 1918
2:from Kötlujökull / Sandfellsjökull to Austastikælir stream / Skálm river in 1612, 1625, 1660, 1721, 1755, 1823, 1860, 1918, 2024[23]
3:from Kötlujökull to Blautakvísl river area of Mýrdalssandur in (1625), 1660, 1755, 1823, 1918
4:from Kötlujökull to Múlakvísl river area of Mýrdalssandur towards Kötlutangi and Höfðabrekkufjara beaches in 1612, 1625, 1660, 1721, 1755, 1823, 1860, 1918
5:from Kötlujökull to Múlakvísl river area of Mýrdalssandur towards Höfðabrekkufjara beach in 1612, 1625, 1660, 1721, 1755, 1823, 1860, 1918, 1955, 1999, 2011, 2014, 2017
6:from Múlakvísl river area towards Kerlingardalsfjara beach in 1660, 1721, 1755, 1823, 1860
7:from Sólheimajökull towards Sólheimasandur in 1860, 1999
8:from Jökulsárgilsjökull towards Jökulsárgil in 1936
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Enotachopo Creek
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- ^ "Geology Viewer". BGS Geology Viewer. British Geological Survey.
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- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 22.
- ^ McGuire, Stella; Smith, Ken (2007). Stanton Moor Conservation Plan 2007 (PDF). peakdistrict.gov.uk/ (Report). Peak District National Park Authority.
- ^ "Gritstone Edges". Peak District Online. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ a b McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 17.
- ^ "Alport Cupola". Derbyshire Heritage. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ a b McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 18.
- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 23.
- ^ "Our land History: Land at Ilam and Stanton-in-Peak". Discover the National Trust Land Map. National Trust. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 31.
- ^ a b McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 19.
- ^ "Stanton Moor Industrial Heritage Walk Report". Peak District Mines Historical Society. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 43.
- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 103.
- ^ McGuire & Smith 2007, p. 46.
- ^ Ainsworth, Stewart; Pearson, Trevor (2002). Stanton Moor, Derbyshire: Survey Report (Report). Archaeological Investigation Report Series AI/6/2002. English Heritage. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
- ^ "The Reform Tower, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire". The Folly Flaneuse. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
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