VOLUNTEERS explore links between the industrial revolution and the South Pennine uplands in a new book.
Riches of the Earth: Over and Under the South Pennine Moors has been published as part of Watershed Landscape project administered by Pennine Prospects.
The book tells how much of the industrial expansion of the 19th and early 20th centuries was only possible because of the minerals that lay under the ground, such as building stone, fireclay and coal.
The new book relates the work of volunteer survey teams on moors at Baildon, Oxenhope and Todmorden.
Each team has used a number of techniques to gather data, such as field-walking and detailed surveying, as well as photography, documents and oral history.
Louise Brown, Pennine Prospect’s community archaeologist, said: “To have volunteers contributing directly to publications, at this research level, is really good. With this work, the teams have been making the links between mineral extraction in the uplands and the industrial expansion in the towns and valleys.”
Watershed Landscape aims to increase interest and usage of the South Pennines landscape, including Bronteland and Rombalds Moor.
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