Park Road

Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 31 Oct 2017

  Walking the Five Pits Trail loop around Holmewood and Williamthorpe Image : Previous – (5 of 21) - Next : Image This north-westerly facing photograph was taken from the Devonshire Terrace bridge as it crosses Park Road. Ahead are some of the buildings of the Holmewood Industrial Park, which is built on the site of Williamthorpe Hall and Wood and the subsequent Williamthorpe Colliery. A few metres to the right an access ramp takes the Five Pits Trail back onto the former trackbed of the Great Central Railway to continue toward the ponds and nature reserve at Williamthorpe. See also this photograph by Roger Temple:- Image - - - An OS map surveyed in 1914 and published in 1921 shows that what is now Devonshire Terrace was the original route for Heath Road. At this point a bridge (now replaced by this newer version) carried the road over the tracks of the Great Central Railway. These tracks, part of the railway's Derbyshire Lines, were part of a route from the south, via Tibshelf that continued on toward Staveley with a branch via Chesterfield.

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