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Friday, 15 July 2022

The Abandoned Mam Tor Road

 



It's remarkable how long it took to abandon a project which couldn't work. Reminds me of a few other projects - much bigger ones. 

Mam Tor is a 517 m (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it. These landslips, which are caused by unstable lower layers of shale, also give the hill its alternative name of Shivering Mountain.

2 comments:

  1. Lots of trunk roads seem to be white elephants.

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  2. Sam - I haven't heard the term 'trunk roads' for a while. Reminds me of 'trunk calls'.

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