Britain's Abandoned Roads - Episode 7 - A625 Mam Tor Road Castleton Peak District
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
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Nature is reclaiming the area for herself. With landslides well documented in the area , it's only a matter of time until the A625 in the Peak District vanishes for good.
Welcome to Britain's Abandoned Roads. In this series, I go out to explore some of the UKs abandoned or disused roads. Old roads in the woods, motorway junctions or forgotten slip roads, this series has it all! Join me as I travel all over the country seeking out forgotten and abandoned infrastructure.
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Love this video. Being from the area makes it even more interesting.
What was funny was when I researched local newspaper articles about it some years back. Apparently after the ‘79 landslip there was some flip-flopping about weather to open it up again. Essentially the towns of Castleton and Hathersage went to war. So long as the road was closed then the wagons from the cement factory in Hope had to drive through Hathersage So naturally they wanted the road reopened. Castleton wanted nothing to do with the wagons continuing to come through, and so opposed plans to reopen it. This lead to week by week the headlines in the local press such as
“Outrage in Castleton as plans announced to reopen Mam Tor road”
Followed a few weeks later by
“Outrage in Hathersage as plans scrapped to reopen Mam Tor road”
These villages are a matter of a few miles apart and populated by the same families, so it was entertaining to watch this spat with the benefit of 20 years of separation.
To the north is another abandoned road. The Woodhead Road (A628) is a main Pennine crossing from Greater Manchester to South Yorkshire. In the 1980s the Stocksbridge bypass (A616) was built, and the new connection left a section of the old Woodhead Road to nature. The former junction was the site of the Flouch Inn. Deprived of its status as a road house, the Flouch struggled on for a number of years before giving up the ghost, and is now the location of a small housing estate. Speaking of ghosts, the Stocksbridge bypass gained notoriety during its construction and early years as a haunted area and is featured in a number of television shows.
Many years ago I was going to Sheffield from Manchester, when asking directions I was told "Turn right at the Flouch Inn" so I did, sorry to hear of its demise.
@@Steve14ps It lasted until around 2015, and there are photos online of The Flouch being demolished in 2016. Like many buildings of the pre-motorway and bypass era, they developed to service a volume of passing traffic, and when that went elsewhere, looked out of proportion to their location. Coaching inns would have had a similar issue I expect.
@@borderlands6606 Thanks for update. I must get up to that area again. I have cycled Mam Tor Road a number of times, I have also cycled from Penistone to Hadfield on the track of the old railway.
The Flouch inn was actually called the Plough inn, it’s sign became so old that bit’s fell off, . Work it out😊
@@rustyrover3808 Like what happened to Fawlty Towers lol
You’re right there John love these video’s London is 5h1t
For those who mayt be interested, where the road has really slipped away from itsen, an interesting perspective on older road prep pre surfacing back to domestic ash (glass and pottery etc) can be viewed with ease.
Fun fact: This road was originally built to take the pressure off Winnats Pass (just up the road, near Sparrowpit). Ironically, since it’s demise, the narrow and steep pass is once more your only way between Chapel and Castleton. Well, unless you drive down into Bakewell and cut back…
Not quite Bakewell; the "heavy" route is via Peak Forest and Calver crossroads.
Unles you own a 4x4 then you can cut across country (quite legally I have to say)
@@quintisalive Well, it's definitely a fact. Whether it's fun or not is entirely subjective
Winnats Pass is a 25% gradient. Quite a challenge to cycle up, especially when an oncoming vehicle forces you to stop!
A road I drove down many, many times in my youth en route to visit wonderful Castleton, with its caves, the unique Blue John stone from the mine of the same name, Peak, Treak and Speedwell caves, plus Peveril Castle sat on top of the hill overlooking the village. Fantastic place for a day out - and only about 20 minutes from my old stomping ground. Whilst in the Chapel area, you could have got yourself some brake linings - Ferodo are Chapel based.
Hence "Ferodo" branded railway bridges that seem to only be up north. I imagine a fun road to drive when it was open. It was a good day out to be fair.
Have a painted ‘Ferodo’ advert on a bridge in Coventry(A4114/London Rd)… not quite ‘up norf’… nor ‘Daaan saaff’
Whilst doing a circulra walk from Blue John, up Mam Tor and back down to Castleton, I saw this abandoned road in person only 3 days ago. I get home, and the algorithm has decreed that I shall watch an older Auto Shenanigans video on the topic! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Why does this series have so few views? it should have thousands! maybe millions is a stretch, but certainly more than it has now. Subbed so I can say I was here before it was cool.
I was over the moon to see more than 100 views on each, any more is a lovely bonus, thanks for watching and welcome to the absurd world of Auto Shenanigans.
It's becoming cool! I found this channel a few days ago when there were about 1.6k subs, and have been binge watching all the earlier videos since. Now there are more than 7k subs. I'm going to predict it will be about 50k by the end of August.
10 months and 23,000 views later ....
: ))))
100k subs! Well done, its much deserved.
Excellent, really appreciate the minimal intro, then straight into the subject... without saying 'without further ado'. Keep it up boi!!
I used to use this all the time in the 70s
Nice video - enjoying the abandoned road videos. Its a beautiful area and I've walked down this 'road' a couple of times over the past decade or two. Fascinating place.
For an abandoned section or two of road in even more spectacular scenery the B5289 on the eastern side of Honister Pass take some beating. I can’t imagine there’s a lot to say but it is an ace location.
0:13 "a picture perfect patch of land" - I bet that took a few takes to say 😀
Been an Auto Shenanigans subscriber for ages, but these videos have only just started appearing on my feed - very odd, but very enjoyable.
Interesting.. it's a very old video.. not quite as polished as the newer stuff :D
@@AutoShenanigans You should go to the Isle of Wight and make a film about all the roads around Ventnor that have been abandoned because of landslides. A massive landslide closed the road to Shanklin at the end of last year. Nice trip to the seaside for you, too!
Loving this series mate. I got recommended video 3 and I think I am set to watch them all by this point lol.
There's a farily long section of the A47 abandoned between Longthorpe and castor in Peterborough
That's a good one.. local too. I shall investigate. Thanks for the suggestion!
I don't know if you saw but episode 14... thanks for the suggestion! ua-cam.com/video/t52C4KlAjdw/v-deo.html
@@AutoShenanigans I'll give it a watch, awesome 👌
I thought you'd have mentioned Chapel en le Frith is the home of Ferodo, being a bit of a petrol head. Love all your vids, very interesting and entertaining
Proper posh pronunciation of Chapel 😃 I remember driving on this road and even now when I visit Derbyshire I have to remember that you go down the Winnats Pass to Castleton. Seems weird.
The original and best abandoned road. Mam Tor means shivering mountain but might as well mean rippling tarmac.
Mam tor means mother hill
Mam Tor means mother hill
Mam tor = mother hill
And that's basically what it is in geological terms. The shivers of rock keep coming off. A tunnel would have been a better (but also challenging) option. And on this note "shiver me timbers" is not a good thing to happen to your ship!
I walked down there more than once. Thanks for this video of what must be an underrated channel.
Hi, thanks and a great channel, I am so pleased I have found it.
I can shed some light on the meaning of Chapel-en-le Frith, as I used to live there. It was as it sounds, and it was indeed a small Chapel in a wood. It was originally called Chapel-en-le Frish, ( why the name change I don't know). Frish in French means literally an unkempt wooded area.
Chapel-en-le Frith, translated means "Chapel in the wood".
Glad you've included this one!
Worth a sub very interesting well done mate
“Old as your mum” 😂
As a scout we went to the peaks and I remember clambering over this road then - good to see it’s still there (sort of!)
I just looked up where this was, I stayed in the dedale bunk house and we hiked over to the blue John cavern, we were literally a couple hundred metres away from this road and totally missed it. Bummer
That intro tho
Great background music
I remember walking in the peak district and just randomly coming across this, I was very confused!
Yes agree, London is shit… 😂 superb video as always John, love the humour 😂
Quality vid John 👌
Many thanks for watching!
I used to green lane in the peaks years ago but never came across this.
I drove round Liverpool last week..think i might need new springs...the road in this video looks like those in and around Liverpool. 😂
I'll be honest...I was not expecting a "ur mum" joke 😄
12th Century. Isn't that the time when we were mostly speaking French?
Soon to be joined by the cat and fiddle pass, which is being ALLOWED to fall off the hill for the sake of 'safety', while they put in patches that actively divert bike wheels off the edge of the road, let potholes grow to small lakes, and spend a shitton on average speed cameras.
I'm not spending money in the Peak District again; they're extremely anti-motorist, almost as bad as London.
Probably because they're trying to preserve what's left of the district so they don't put precious brum-brum first
@@grindelston5968 Biking on roads doesn't harm the country side.
Conversely, people hitting gravel on a sharp corner DOES harm the countryside when the flaming wreckage of their vehicle starts a wildfire and dumps unburned oil into the ground.
I assume you don't drive, from your attitude, so you don't get to have an opinion on roads.
Yeah, I'm a driver. What I meant was , the peak district / Derbyshire has loads of 'weird' rules to protect the area , one is you have to have been living locally for a certain amount of time before you can get a house and move in - they do that because locals were getting pushed out of their own district because,let's face it , it's a beautiful area and rich folk were buying up properties and locals couldn't get on the property ladder.
I apologize if my earlier comment came off as condescending it's just that I agree with the local council trying to do what they can to preserve the area.... doesn't stop them from quarrying the F out of the hillsides though does it?
@@grindelston5968 But they've left dangerous potholes in place on sharp bends next to precipitous drops, leaving the road strewn with gravel.
Our road taxes to nowhere, much like the country today going nowhere.
The text alignment on the thumbnails is hilariously annoying 😆
My neck of the woods
Born in Peak District 1955
Now a grandad trying to keep my grandkids pure and innocent What do the schools do,,, take them on a trip to the Devil’s Arse 😂😂😂😂😂
Naaah. That down to the mams, dads and grandads!