Little Longstone

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Little Longstone
Derbyshire
Little Longstone Congregational Chapel, near Monsal Head - geograph.org.uk - 1590060.jpg
Little Longstone Congregational Chapel
Location
Grid reference: SK191718
Location: 53°14’35"N, 1°42’54"W
Data
Post town: Bakewell
Postcode: DE45
Dialling code: 01629
Local Government
Council: Derbyshire Dales
Parliamentary
constituency:
Derbyshire Dales

Little Longstone is a village in Monsal Dale in Derbyshire, on a minor road west of Great Longstone, just off the B6465 road from Wardlow to Ashford-in-the-Water. The wider parish includes a hamlet, Monsal Head, and is wholly within the Peak District National Park.

About the village

The village pub is the Packhorse Inn.[1] The village also has a Grade-II-listed Congregational Chapel[2]

The Monsal Trail, a popular cycleway and footpath following a section of the former Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway,[3] runs just south of the village.

There are nine Grade II listed buildings and structures in the parish:

  • Village stocks[4] and adjacent house named 'the Stocks'.[5]
  • Manor House,[6] with its stable block[7] and Dutch barn[8]
  • The Packhorse Inn[9]
  • The Monsal Dale Viaduct[10] (also known as Headstone Viaduct)
  • Congregational Chapel[2]
  • Cosy Cottage and adjoining cottage[11]

The parish also has four scheduled monuments, comprising one disused lead mine and a series of bowl barrows:

  • White Cliff bowl barrow[12]
  • bowl barrow west of Castlegate Lane[13]
  • two bowl barrows east of Hay Dale[14]
  • Putwell Hill Mine[15]
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References

  1. The Packhorse Inn
  2. 2.0 2.1 National Heritage List 1311405: Congregational Chapel (Grade II listing)
  3. Lofthouse, A.W.G. (2007). Monsal Trail Then and Now (2nd ed.). ALD Design & Print. ISBN 1901587312. 
  4. National Heritage List 1109911: Stocks (Grade II listing)
  5. National Heritage List 1311426: The Stocks (Grade II listing)
  6. National Heritage List 1109912: Manor House (Grade II listing)
  7. National Heritage List 1109913: Stable block to west of Manor House (Grade II listing)
  8. National Heritage List 1311433: Dutch barn belonging to The Manor (Grade II listing)
  9. National Heritage List 1109914: Pack Horse Inn (Grade II listing)
  10. National Heritage List 1109915: Monsal Dale Viaduct (Grade II listing)
  11. National Heritage List 1311410: Cosy Cottage and adjoining cottage (Grade II listing)
  12. National Heritage List 1008783: White Cliff bowl barrow (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
  13. National Heritage List 1008789: Bowl barrow west of Castlegate Lane (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
  14. National Heritage List 1008811: Two bowl barrows east of Hay Dale (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
  15. National Heritage List 1412909: Putwell Hill Mine (Scheduled ancient monument entry)