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Can anyone with a bit of local knowledge help me out here please?

I'm off to the Peak District for a bit of a jolly tomorrow. I have a few regular haunts and know my way about Derbyshire quite well but there is a place that has proven elusive from me for many years.
When I was a kid I used to go there with my old man in his truck, it was a pretty bleak stretch of road where we used to stop for a buttie and break out the Thermos. What I remember clearly were the discarded mill stones which littered the sides of the road along a stretch of a couple of miles. They were dumped in abundance all along there and some were a couple of hundred yards back from the road.
We would have been running to and from the Sheffield steel mills so I suspect it would have been on the moors somewhere near Sheffield but I'm not certain exactly where. Maybe somewhere near Hathersage?

Anyone know what I'm talking about or has this place long since become a business park or Barrat estate? :shrug:
 
Can't help you with a location, sorry, but I imagine the millstones have long been scarfed away by local landscape gardeners and general public alike :exit:

Sounds like a great spot if you can find it again.
 
Were they big enough for Earth Google to pick them out...may be worth a "flight".

Bob
 
between sheffield and hathersage, go past the fox house pub towards hathersage down round the sharp left hander and along for about a mile when there is a sharp right hander with an amazing view of the valley below. That is the start of the straight I think you are talking about. Off to the left over the wall is a path that has hundreds of millstones scattered by its side.
 
Good point Bob.
Alex, it's a possibility but they were quite large. It would take a Hiab to shift them.
 
Excellent :thumbs:

Thank you gentlemen that looks highly likely, I can definitely see millstones.
I'll go and have a look. :)
 
Gary Bagshawe said:
between sheffield and hathersage, go past the fox house pub towards hathersage down round the sharp left hander and along for about a mile when there is a sharp right hander with an amazing view of the valley below. That is the start of the straight I think you are talking about. Off to the left over the wall is a path that has hundreds of millstones scattered by its side.
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If you stop in the car park on the right hand side just before the sharp right hander and take a stroll up the rocky edge - actually called Millstone Edge, you can walk amongst many millstones - mind out for the sheep and rams if they are still there, they tend to make a go for you sometimes :)
 
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