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Middleton Top winding engine house, wheels and wheel-pit is a pumping station associated with the Middleton branch of the High Peak Railway, constructed in the early nineteenth century. The site comprises a stone-built engine house containing winding machinery, together with large wheels and a wheel-pit that formed part of the inclined plane system used to haul wagons up the steep gradient of the railway. The installation demonstrates the engineering solutions employed during the early railway age to overcome topographical challenges on mineral railways serving the Derbyshire lead and limestone industries. The structures remain substantially intact and represent an important survival of industrial railway infrastructure from the pioneering period of mechanical rail transport.
Middleton Top winding engine house, wheels and wheel-pit is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007038. View the official record →
Middleton Top winding engine house, wheels and wheel-pit is a pumping station associated with the Middleton branch of the High Peak Railway, constructed in the early nineteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007038.
Middleton Top winding engine house, wheels and wheel-pit is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1007038.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing cross in the churchyard of St Mary's Church (1.7 km), Carsington Pasture, Nickalum, Perserverance, West Head, Break Hollow and other small mines and medieval field boundaries (3.2 km), Medieval settlement and part of an open field system, 250m north west of Callow Hall (3.3 km).
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