This is a list of scheduled monuments in the district of Amber Valley in the English county of Derbyshire.
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. [1] Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. There are about 20,000 scheduled monument entries on the list, which is maintained by English Heritage; more than one site can be included in a single entry.
While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, English Heritage considers listed building status as a better way of protecting buildings than scheduled monument status. If a monument is considered by English Heritage to "no longer merit scheduling" it can be descheduled. [2]
Derbyshire has over 500 scheduled monuments including many stone cairns, stone circles, barrow burial mounds, lead mining relics, ancient settlements, and over 20 bridges. [3]
Image | Name and reference | Feature | Location | Notes |
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Alderwasley Chapel [4] | Chapel | Alderwasley SK32385342 | Also a Grade II listed building. [5] Built in the early 16th century by the Lord of the Manor, Thomas Lowe. In c. 1850 church services moved from St Margaret's Chapel to the newly built All Saints' Church. | |
Aqueduct (Cromford Canal over Derby to Matlock railway) [6] | Aqueduct | Dethick, Lea and Holloway SK3197455553 | 328m south-east of Aqueduct Cottage | |
Butterley Works blast furnace complex [7] | Metalworks | Butterley near Ripley SK4016251586 | The blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf date back to the 1790s. | |
Castle Hill camp [8] | Settlement | South Wingfield SK3857954129 | ||
Codnor Castle [9] | Castle | Codnor, Ripley SK4335849983 | A ruined 13th-century castle built by Henry de Grey. [10] | |
Duffield Bridge [11] | Bridge | Duffield SK3503442965 | Also a Grade II listed building. [12] | |
Fritchley Tunnel, Butterley Gangroad [13] | Tunnel | Crich SK3585553013 | Fritchley Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel, which is believed to be the oldest surviving example in the world. [14] The tunnel was constructed in 1793 by Benjamin Outram as part of the Butterley Gangroad. | |
Horsley Castle tower keep castle [15] | Castle | Horsley SK3758043204 | ||
Mackworth Castle gatehouse | Mackworth medieval settlement including the castle gatehouse, part of the medieval open field system and a pinfold [16] | Settlement | Mackworth SK3123837783 | Mackworth Castle was a 14th- or 15th-century structure in Mackworth village near Derby. It was the home of the Mackworth family for several centuries. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed building. [17] |
Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood [18] | Moated site | Mapperley SK4334242533 | ||
Moated site north of Dannah Farm [19] | Moated site | Shottle and Postern SK3117650474 | ||
Morley Park Works [20] | Metalworks | Ripley SK3800249189 | ||
Mugginton medieval settlement [21] | Settlement | Weston Underwood SK2829543091 | Includes part of an open field system. | |
Park Hall moated site, well and enclosure [22] | Moated site | Mapperley SK4246043013 | ||
Section of Roman road, Kirk Langley [23] | Road | Kirk Langley SK2914537946 | North-east of Moor Lane, Kirk Langley | |
Section of Rykneld Street Roman road [24] | Road | Denby SK3872346272 | South of Ticknall Hill | |
Twelfth century tower keep castle [25] | Castle | Duffield SK3431644044 | Includes sites of 11th-century motte and bailey castle, an Anglian cemetery and a Romano-British settlement | |
Windley Moated Manorial Complex [26] | Moated site | Farnah Hall, Windley SK3238643629 | ||
Wingfield Manor: a medieval great house [27] | House | South Wingfield SK3742454736 | Construction of Wingfield Manor began in 1441 (for Treasurer to Henry VI, Sir Ralph Cromwell) but has been left deserted since the 1770s. Also a Grade I listed building. [28] |
Stodhart Tunnel is a 100-yard (91 m) tunnel on the Peak Forest Tramway at Chapel Milton, Derbyshire. The tunnel stretches under the Chapel-en-le-Firth to Glossop Road. Although one side has been blocked up, it remains one of the oldest rail-related tunnels in the world and was also the site of one of the earliest rail-related accidents, when a laden carriage rolled into two horses, killing them.
Codnor Castle is a ruined 13th-century castle in Derbyshire, England. The land around Codnor came under the jurisdiction of William Peverel after the Norman conquest. The building is registered as a Scheduled Ancient Monument a Grade II Listed Building and is officially a Building at Risk.
Morley is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England.
Fritchley is a small village in Derbyshire, England, situated to the south of Crich and north of Ambergate. It falls under the civil parish of Crich. To the east of the village is the ruin of a windmill. Fritchley has an active Congregational Church, and there is a Quaker meeting house with an active Quaker Meeting. There is a pub, the Red Lion, but the post office closed in 2009. The village hosts a steam rally each August.
Mackworth Castle was a 14th- or 15th-century structure located in Derbyshire, at the upper end of Mackworth village near Derby. The home for several centuries of the Mackworth family, it was at some point reduced to the ruins of a gatehouse suggestive of a grand castle. A survey from 1911 suggested that though the gatehouse resembled a castle, the rest of the structure may have been more modest. The remains are part of a designated Scheduled Ancient Monument.
There are 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone, Kent, England. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is an archaeological site or historic building of "national importance" that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Historic England takes the leading role in identifying such sites. Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. They are also referred to as scheduled ancient monuments. There are about 20,000 scheduled monument entries on the list and more than one site can be included in a single entry. While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, Historic England considers listed building status as a better way of protecting buildings than scheduled monument status. If a monument is considered by Historic England to "no longer merit scheduling" it can be removed from the schedule.
Fritchley Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel at Fritchley in Derbyshire, England, which is believed to be the oldest surviving example in the world. The tunnel was constructed in 1793 by Benjamin Outram as part of the Butterley Gangroad, altered in the 1840s, and remained in use until the railway closed in 1933. It is a scheduled monument.
The Butterley Gangroad was an early tramway in Derbyshire of approximately 3 ft 6 in gauge, which linked Hilt's Quarry and other limestone quarries at Crich with the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge. The first railway project of Derbyshire civil engineer Benjamin Outram (1764–1805), the line was originally a horse-drawn and gravity-driven plateway, a form of tramway that Outram popularised. Unlike modern edgeways, where flanges on the wheel guide it along the track, plateways used "L" shaped rails where a flange on the rail guided the wheels.
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