A Evening Stroll around Blacka Moor.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008. 7 – 9.00 pm.

The Sheffield Wildlife Trust invite you to join a evening stroll to hear about all the wildlife that live on Blacka Moor. Please book by contacting John P Ward or Rowan Watson-Taylor on Tel 0ii4 263 4335.

Meet at Stoney Ridge Car Park . SK 277 806.


Brief directions to Blackamoor Car Parks.
Both served direct by the No 72 Bus or any Fox House, Hathersage, Castleton, Calver. Buxton Bus.

Eccelsall Road, South
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Whirlow Bridge
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Doremoor Inn
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Sheep Hill Road
(Joins from the right)
Direct from Ringinglow
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bus stop
Whitelow Lane
(Joins from the left)
Direct from Dore.
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Peak District Emblem
A Millstone
Start of Blackamoor.
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On Right
Piper House Car Park.
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Sroney Ridge Car Park
End of Plantation on the left
End of Blackamoor
The small Car park is adjacent to the wall down slope

Across the road ( Hathersage Road ) on the verge, is a plaque regarding
The former Stoney Ridge Toll House.
In my cycling days the plaque was part of the roadside kerbstone.
( Its now possher)

Where exactly is Stoney Ridge Car Park Albert? Also, come to think of it where is Blacka Moor? Coming from nearer than Barnsley than Sheffield I for one haven't a clue where Black Moor is.

Where exactly is Stoney Ridge Car Park Albert? Also, come to think of it where is Blacka Moor? Coming from nearer than Barnsley than Sheffield I for one haven't a clue where Black Moor is.

This Car Park can be found on the left hand side of Hathersage Road on leaving Sheffield. It is where Blacka Moor ends or about hundred yards before the road junction on the left hand where the road goes to Calver. The road straight forward goes to Fox House.
( I'll scan a map to use as a guide. I'll put it on this post as a link )

For interest. On the opposite side of the road is a memorial stone which states that the Toll House existed at that spot. The toll keepers children attended the school in Dore Monday to Friday and the all family attended Dore Church on Sundays.
If the toll was free on Sunday's I've never found out.

This should be a very interesting evening walk. If the founder of the CPRE. in Sheffield, the then Mrs Ethel Gallimore, later to become Mrs G Haythornethwaite, had not persuaded Alderman G.J.Graves to buy the land. A plan to build Villas / houses on it would have gone ahead. Had that occurred, we would never have had a Peak District National Park worth looking at.