Ringinglow
| Ringinglow | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 The Roundhouse, Ringinglow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK290837 |
| Location: | 53°20’58"N, 1°33’54"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Sheffield |
| Postcode: | S11 |
| Dialling code: | 0114 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Sheffield |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sheffield Hallam |
Ringinglow is a rural village in West Riding of Yorkshire, entirely surrounded by open countryside. The Limb Brook close by marks the border between Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
The village is focussed on the intersections of Fulwood Lane and Sheephill Road, historically here known as Houndkirk Road, with Ringinglow Road. The sources of the Porter Brook and Limb Brook, both tributaries of the River Sheaf, are near the village.
The Norfolk Arms, a pub in the village, is often used as a staging-post by ramblers following one of these rivers out towards the Peak District: the eastern boundary of the National Park runs through the village. The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the village.[1]
History
On Fulwood Lane a polished Neolithic stone axehead was found in 1952 indicating ancient human activity in the area.
An interim report by University of Sheffield staff on excavations of a linear feature in the Sheephill Road, Ringinglow area has suggested evidence of the route of the lost Roman Road linking Templeborough with the Roman Signal Station at Navio and Batham Gate. The feature, which extends through Barber Fields is 65 feet wide and filled to a depth of 16 feet with rubble and has a metalled surface.[2] This route would have passed close to the Roman villa at Whirlow Hall Farm.[3]
A report dating from 1574 detailed a tour by George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, then lord of the manor of Sheffield, of the boundaries of the manor, in which they visited 'a great heape of stones called Ringinglawe' that was used as one of the boundary markers.[4] The site of the cairn is believed to be to the west of the village.[5]
Ringinglow Road was constructed as part of a turnpike road from Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton that opened in 1758.[6][7]
About the village
The Ringinglow Roundhouse, now a Grade II listed building,[8] is an octagonal former toll house built around 1778.
Another historic building is the Norfolk Arms Public House, a coaching inn that was built around 1840.[9] Addy's 1888 map shows the Norfolk Arms was then known as the Ringinglow Inn.
Historical evidence of shallow coal drift-mining of the Ringinglow seam has been found in the nearby Barber Fields, adjacent to Sheephill Road. This was served by an industrial railway which ran from a location near to Furnace Farm to Copperas Farm. Neither of the farm names appear on the modern Ordnance Survey maps although evidence of a ballasted footpath from the Limb Brook to Smeltings Farm can still be found. The railway is known to have existed in the late 1940s but, like the mines is no more. Other mines in the area were the Deep Sick Coal Pits.[10]
In 2005 a Rotary Club funded toposcope, Finder Cairn, was erected at the junction of Fulwood Lane and Greenhouse Lane.
References
- ↑ McCloy, Andrew (2017). Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park. Friends of the Peak District. ISBN 978-1909461536.
- ↑ Inglis, D. H (January 2016). "The Roman Road Project". http://www.romanroads.org/archive/road_folders/710b/sites/sheephill/710b_sheephill_2015_interim.pdf.
- ↑ Waddington, Clive (2012). "Discovery and Excavation of a Roman Estate Centre at Whirlow, South-west Sheffield". Council for British Archaeology. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/images/Whirlow%20farm%202012.pdf.
- ↑ Hunter, Joseph: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York; Chapter I: Introductory Matter.—General Description (1819)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 312330 – Ringinglawe
- ↑ Leader, R.E. (1906). The Highways and Byways of Old Sheffield. A lecture delivered before the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society (transcription)
- ↑ Goodfellow, Alan W. (1938–43). "Sheffield Turnpikes in the 18th Century". Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society (Hunter Archaeological Society) 5: 71.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1271045: Ringinglow Roundhouse (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1247134: Norfolk Arms Public House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Barber Fields Coal Drift Workings, Ringinglow, Sheffield". Matthews and Crocker. Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, Vol 10, No 1, 1987. https://pdmhs.co.uk/MiningHistory/Bulletin%2010-1%20-%20Barber%20Fields%20Coal%20Drift%20Workings,%20Ringinglow,%20Sheffield.pdf.
