Tunstead, Derbyshire

Tunstead
Derbyshire
Monument to James Brindley with ash tree
Location
Grid reference:	SK104741
Location:	53°15’50"N, 1°50’42"W
Data
Post town:	Buxton
Postcode:	SK17
Local Government
Council:	High Peak

Tunstead is a village in Derbyshire, standing above Great Rocks Dale north of Buxton in the Peak District.

The village is famous as the birthplace of James Brindley, pioneer builder of Britain's canals. He was born in 1716 in a farmhouse on the edge of the village and with the encouragement of his mother he became an apprentice millwright in Leek. By 1875 the farm had fallen into ruins, marked only by an ash tree, when a monument to his memory was placed in nearby Wormhill. By 1958, the ash tree had also gone, and the Derbyshire Archaeological Society planted a sapling in its place and erected another monument.

Tunstead is also famous for the quarry, on the other side of the old Midland Railway line from Millers Dale to Chapel en le Frith. Being just outside the boundary of the Peak District National Park it is probably the most extensively worked in the area, yielding high-quality limestone exceptionally free of volcanic rock.

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