0 favorites     1 comment    49 visits

See also...


Keywords

castle
Derbyshire
English Heritage
Castleton
Peveril Castle
roadworks
landslip
Mam Tor
A625


Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved

49 visits


pcc - Mam Tor

pcc - Mam Tor
Looking NW, from the Old Hall site [by the Keep].
Mam Tor - what looks like a quarry face is actually the back face of the land-slip. It has been moving - and is still doing so - for some 4,000 years. It extends a considerable distance [see notes]

Comments
 StoneRoad2013
StoneRoad2013 club
The Mam Tor land-slip was a case study for me as a student, quite a few decades ago.

One conclusion I came to was - do not to try building a major road on it !
In 1979 the authorities gave up and re-routed the A626, after landslips required major repairs in 1912, 1933, 1946, 1952, 1966 and 1974 ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A625_road#Mam_Tor_road
22 months ago. Edited 22 months ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.