Monument record 8406/1/6 - Ironstone Pit South of Cogenhoe

{1} c.1870 the standard gauge line was extended from its early terminus just south of the level crossing on the Grendon road, along the little valley to a point south of the modern Cogenhoe School, where a considerable amount of outcropping stone was quarried, and again conveyed to the standard gauge by narrow gauge tramway; a cable-worked incline was not necessary here as the tubs full of ore were allowed to run down most of the way by gravity. At the foot of the slope the tramway ran onto a wooden platform over the standard gauge line and the ore was tipped into the wagons below. Horses were used to pull the emptied tubs back up the hill.
At the western end of the system a public footpath to Brafield leaves the road opposite the school and crosses an open grassy area of ground disturbed by the later quarrying activities and traversed by two well-defined cuttings whose directions converge on the tipping dock site; as the footpath descends to the stream bed the former standard gauge line cutting can be seen, clearly defined to the terminus.

<1> Tonks E., 1989, The Ironstone Quarries of The Midlands (History, Operation and Railways): The Northampton Area, p.128-33 (checked) (Book). SNN47272.

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Feb 3 2011 6:15PM