2008
SE0306 : Not the Cotton Famine Road
taken 18 years ago, 3 km from Diggle, Oldham, England
Not the Cotton Famine Road
It has been claimed that this road was constructed in the 1860s to alleviate the unemployment in the cotton industry caused by the Union's embargo on the export of cotton from the Confederacy during the American Civil War. However, the ditches alongside can be seen on the 1854 OS map and it is probably an unfinished road from Saddleworth village to Blake Gate, proposed c1811.
The construction method seems to have been similar to the Roman one of digging ditches and piling the earth into the middle.
The construction method seems to have been similar to the Roman one of digging ditches and piling the earth into the middle.
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- Grid Square
- SE0306, 26 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- John Illingworth (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Thursday, 5 June, 2008
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SE 038 066 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:33.3769N 1:56.5832W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SE 037 066
- View Direction
- EAST (about 90 degrees)
