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Pentrich Rising — Ripley and Butterley Iron Works 1817

1817
England
Era
modern
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Butterley Iron Works workers who declined to join
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Pentrich marchers under Brandreth
Outcome
Iron Works workers did not join; rising continued to collapse as it marched; area became associated with the 1817 radical rising in subsequent political memory
The Battle

History & Significance

Pentrich Rising marchers passed through Ripley and attempted to recruit workers at Butterley Iron Works to join the march; the iron works workers refused to join and the march continued to fail to gather the numbers needed to make the rising viable

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Scheduled Monuments near Pentrich Rising — Ripley and Butterley Iron Works 1817

Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf
Scheduled monument · ~0.8 miles
Morley Park Works
Scheduled monument · ~1.4 miles
Codnor Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 miles
Castle Hill camp
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 miles
Rykneld Street section of Roman road S of Ticknall Hill
Scheduled monument · ~2.6 miles
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