Information board at outdoor museum"

Knowl Hill, Buckley

1985

Due to the great interest interest shown in our excavations, notice boards were placed alongside the track. The boards were frequently vandalised, in phases, and eventually some were burnt. The museum we had organised fell into disuse and today the excavations have been covered over by Mother Nature. If you visit the site today (early 2003), careful investigation will reveal clues to the tramway system underneath.

SIGN TEXT

This section of the horse tramway is of great interest to all Buckley people interested in the town's heritage. Please help to preserve it. The track is composed of four stages rarely still seen in existence. The lowest strata show wooden baulks of parallel timber - a wooden way.

Certain sections are composed of parallel lines of stone causeway, scored with wheel marks. Later, the stone causeway was replaced in parts with slotted blocks

- a stone tramway.

In the late 18th Century onwards:- iron L-shaped plates were laid down supported on stone blocks at intervals

- an iron plate-way.

As traffic increased in the mid 19th Century, the trackway was embedded in bricks and the tramway replaced in places with discarded railway line laid on its side

- a re-inforced iron tramway.

DO NOT VANDALISE. SHOW PRIDE IN YOUR TOWN.

J. Bentley.

Author: Bentley, James

Information board at outdoor museum"

Knowl Hill, Buckley

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