Looking across fields towards Crich from Riley Lane, Pentrich, Derbyshire, England. Ryknild Street (Old Roman Road) runs north-east to south-west between the hedge and main road.
Photograph taken from Riley Lane at Pentrich where it crosses an elevated ridge with all-encompassing views. Imagine it almost 2,000 years ago. Just below the ridge was the route of Ryknild Street, a long-distance Roman road from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire to Templeborough, South Yorkshire that passed through Derby and Chesterfield. Ryknild Street ran roughly south-west to north-east.
The village of Pentrich is famous for the Pentrich Martyrs or the Pentrich rising. It was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom. It occurred on the night of 9/10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield; the 'revolution' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.
A gathering of some two or three hundred men, stockingers, quarrymen and iron workers, led by 'The Nottingham Captain', Jeremiah Brandreth who was an unemployed stockinger, set out from South Wingfield to march to Nottingham. They were lightly armed with pikes, scythes and a few guns, which had been hidden in a quarry in Wingfield Park, and had a set of rather unfocused revolutionary demands, including the wiping out of the National Debt.
However, one among them, William J. Oliver, was a government spy, and the uprising was quashed soon after it began. Three men were hanged and beheaded at Derby Gaol for their participation in the uprising: Jeremiah Brandreth, Isaac Ludlam and William Turner.
Looking across fields towards Crich from Riley Lane, Pentrich, Derbyshire, England. Ryknild Street (Old Roman Road) runs north-east to south-west between the hedge and main road.
Photograph taken from Riley Lane at Pentrich where it crosses an elevated ridge with all-encompassing views. Imagine it almost 2,000 years ago. Just below the ridge was the route of Ryknild Street, a long-distance Roman road from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire to Templeborough, South Yorkshire that passed through Derby and Chesterfield. Ryknild Street ran roughly south-west to north-east.
The village of Pentrich is famous for the Pentrich Martyrs or the Pentrich rising. It was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom. It occurred on the night of 9/10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield; the 'revolution' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.
A gathering of some two or three hundred men, stockingers, quarrymen and iron workers, led by 'The Nottingham Captain', Jeremiah Brandreth who was an unemployed stockinger, set out from South Wingfield to march to Nottingham. They were lightly armed with pikes, scythes and a few guns, which had been hidden in a quarry in Wingfield Park, and had a set of rather unfocused revolutionary demands, including the wiping out of the National Debt.
However, one among them, William J. Oliver, was a government spy, and the uprising was quashed soon after it began. Three men were hanged and beheaded at Derby Gaol for their participation in the uprising: Jeremiah Brandreth, Isaac Ludlam and William Turner.