cookridge mystery?

Si · Post by Si » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 11:41 am

Jogon wrote: You mean this, actually in the woods on the hill.You can drive up to it at that new Farm/Cafe/Residential place.Looks like a concrete water tower to me. PARKSIDER is that the thing you mean? Jogon's picture looks like the structure on Cathy's Cragg (covered on SL elsewhere). I think someone said it was some sort of water tank, but it does have a WWII bunker look to it. It's on the skyline, across the field by the 90 degree right-hand bend on Cookridge Lane.

Si · Post by Si » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 11:46 am

Phill_dvsn wrote: Jogon wrote: See my earlier excuses about the duff photo.I've noticed that wooded hill for all the years I've gone by too+from Leeds.Has the look of a burial mound, is there a geologist in the house?And just to spice it up, the Roman Road went by.I predict flocks of SL 'twitchers'. Spoil heap from tunnel I reckon If it's Cathy's Cragg (see my post above) it's off the line of the tunnel to the east. It looks like a natural feature to me (I've got a geology A level - honest! ) I think it's too big for a burial mound, and nearly all these are marked on OS maps.There is a line of clearly visible spoil heaps (possibly nine) on Google Earth, some with air shafts, others without, showing the line of the tunnel.Yes, the Roman road crosses Cookridge Lane just after the bend I mentioned above.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 10:13 pm

Jogon wrote: You mean this, actually in the woods on the hill.You can drive up to it at that new Farm/Cafe/Residential place.Looks like a concrete water tower to me. PARKSIDER is that the thing you mean? I now find that it first appears named as a "tank" on the 1908 OS so not a gun emplacement I fear?It's a significant structure that has stood the test of time.Tank for what?

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 10:18 pm

I see 'sinks' marked on old maps all the time, I still can't figure out what they can be outside.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 10:27 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: I see 'sinks' marked on old maps all the time, I still can't figure out what they can be outside. It seems to indicate the end of a water course, according to this excerpt from a website on using OS maps to determine boundaries for land registration:"Water courses may have text or symbols associated with the lines that represent their centres or their two banks, such as the name of a river, the annotation “stream”, a nearby arrow indicating the direction of flow, or the annotations “issues” or “sinks” where the line starts or ends."

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Thu 08 Mar, 2012 10:31 pm

Thanks for that Tasa, yes that seems about right. If you look at the back of the Mabgate pub on old maps you can see sinks marked off there, and that's pretty much where the culvert goes underground.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Fri 09 Mar, 2012 7:28 am

Phill_dvsn wrote: I see 'sinks' marked on old maps all the time, I still can't figure out what they can be outside. At the start of Foundry Lane old maps near the melbourne junction show a rubbish heap of all things. There's a small stream that may be natural but also may be mine drainage used for filling the old mill ponds. The stream issues from under York Road and sinks into the rubbish heap.Where the rubbish heap comes from I dunno.

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 09 Mar, 2012 10:29 am

The Parksider wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: I see 'sinks' marked on old maps all the time, I still can't figure out what they can be outside. At the start of Foundry Lane old maps near the melbourne junction show a rubbish heap of all things. There's a small stream that may be natural but also may be mine drainage used for filling the old mill ponds. The stream issues from under York Road and sinks into the rubbish heap.Where the rubbish heap comes from I dunno. If you remember parkie, what I think was the outflow from the pond at Seacroft Hall but certainly an outflow (in my memory of Parklands Junior's days!) embankment face in the wooded area adjacent to Inglewood drive flowed towards the Melbourne, disappearing underground at the Dufton approac junction, with a further (same?) stream running behind the Skelwiths to Ironwood approach. I remember an outflow somewhere on the western side of here running towards the site of the mill ponds, presumably once making its way to Wykebeck. Don't we have maps of this somewhere back in the mill/mining thread?

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 10 Mar, 2012 8:54 pm

chameleon wrote: If you remember parkie, what I think was the outflow from the pond at Seacroft Hall flowed towards the Melbourne, disappearing underground at the Dufton approac junction, with a further (same?) stream running behind the Skelwiths to Ironwood approach. I remember an outflow somewhere on the western side of here running towards the site of the mill ponds Yes it's on the old OS maps and as well as being an overflow I/we suspect that mine drainage went into this watercourse.The OS maps show "refuse heaps" with this watercourse sinking into them. On close examination the refuse heaps are the site of the mill ponds. Seems they dumped rubbish in them to fill them up.Worth a look on Old Maps. I'd post them on here but I suspect a large element of my life would tragically ebb away trying to do it......

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 11 Mar, 2012 7:31 pm

In his book 'Cookridge The Story of a Yorkshire Township, Part 2' Don Cole has an illustration of this hill referred to as "Lime Kiln Hill".