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became a public house serving the large number of navvies who arrived to do the construction work. Initially called the Reservoir Inn and then the Haychatter Inn, the pub closed in 2003, being run by the Siddall family for last 30 years of operation. Today it is a private house. Edgefield House, now marked on maps as Edgefield Farm, is one of the largest houses in the dale; built in a sunless north-facing position off Hoar Stones Road, it was the home of the eminent Sheffield solicitor William Tattershall (1774–1834). By the roadside is a small unusual
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barn. Woodseats Farm on the dale's northern slopes also has a surviving cruck barn. Almost adjacent to Walker House on Dale Road is Haychatter House, which dates from the late 1500s and was a farm building for several hundred years. When the reservoirs were built in the dale during the 1860s the farm
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of 1864. The dale beneath the stricken Dale Dike reservoir is rural with very few habitations. However, the farmstead of John Empsall and his family which stood by the Annet bridge was completely swept away by the torrent. Luckily the Empsalls, including their three children, survived, as did their
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Many of the farm buildings in the valley are of some age. Lower Thornseat farmhouse on Dale Road (grade II listed) dates from 1721 and stands within a small group of buildings which includes the Dale Dike reservoir keeper's house, a substantial stone built house dating from the 1870s. Further down
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The Strines Inn, the only public house left in the dale with the closing of the Haychatter, stands at the head of the valley on Mortimer Road at a height of 1000 feet above sea level. Although there are claims that there was a structure on the site in the 13th century, it seems that the building
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dates from the 16th century, with the upper wing added in the 18th century and the part adjacent to the road constructed in 1860. The Worralls were a local gentry family who lived at Strines, and their coat of arms is carved above the doorway. The inn was converted to a
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Two roads travel up the valley from its lower regions: Dale Road passes on the north side of the dale with Blindside Lane on the south. Mortimer Road traverses around the valley at a height of around 310 metres (1,020 ft). This road was named after
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Thornseats Lodge is an imposing house, which stands high (320 metres/1,050 ft) on the north side of the valley off Mortimer Road above Dale Dike Reservoir dam wall. It was built in 1855 for the steel maker Sidney Jessop as a base for
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lodger William Rose, a reservoir construction worker. They had been forewarned of the imminent disaster ten minutes earlier by local resident Thomas Fish. The Annet bridge was destroyed in the deluge, to be rebuilt at a later date.
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purchased the building for use as an orphanage and then a children's home in the 1930s. In the 1980s it was sold to local businessman Doug Hague, and it now stands in a derelict state.
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are the best two examples of residential houses within Bradfield Dale, both being given listed status by
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by repairing, widening and building bridges to make it fit for wheeled traffic.
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is a rural valley 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west-northwest of the City of
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The lower part of Bradfield Dale was the first area to be inundated by the
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in England. The valley stands within the north-eastern boundary of the
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Dale Road is Walker House Farm, which includes an early 17th-century
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View down the dale from Boots Folly, Dale Dike reservoir in view
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A Look At Life in Bradfield Dale and the Surrounding Area
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on the surrounding moorland. His better known brother
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Index


Sheffield
Peak District
Low Bradfield
River Loxley
Strines
Dale Dike
Agden Reservoir
Hans Winthrop Mortimer
Act of Parliament
Penistone
Bamford
Great Sheffield Flood
Hallfield House
Sugworth Hall
English Heritage
Boot's Folly

grouse shooting
Thomas Jessop
Sheffield City Council

cruck
listed building
public house
ISBN
1 901587 05 3
Historic England
"Hallfield House (Grade II) (1192122)"
National Heritage List for England

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