Clough Head Tramway Clough Head (Old Dolly) Pit & Dolly (Barn) Pit to New Road Lime Kilns, Bugsworth Coal to fire the New Road (Top) Kilns was supplied from Clough Head (Old Dolly) Pit and Dolly (Barn) Pit, both to the north near Cloughhead), and probably from Lady Pit (to the north-north-west near Gowhole). Bugsworth Hall Pit and Bugsworth Colliery would also have supplied coal. Bugsworth Hall Pit was situated to the west of Bugsworth Hall and Bugsworth Colliery was situated higher up the hillside beside Dolly Lane on its west side. Additional coal was also boated in from Whaley Bridge and New Mills.

To facilitate the supply of coal from Clough Head (Old Dolly) Pit it was connected to the head of the kilns by a ⅞-mile long single-track tramway running down the hillside that was constructed in c.1799. In c.1850 a branch was constructed from this to the younger Dolly (Barn) Pit lower down the hillside.

There is a possibility that coal from Lady Pit was also transported on the Clough Head Tramway after being carted to it but there is no evidence for this.

Mosley Hall Tramway Mosley Hall Pit to Gnat Hole Lime Kilns, Bugsworth The two batteries comprising the Gnat Hole lime kilns were located to the south of Bugsworth Basin at the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal. Four kilns were placed on the eastern side of Chinley Rd and another four on the western side. The two batteries were linked by two bridges, side-by-side, over Chinley Rd. This arrangement provided access by two tramway sidings over the road for the supply of limestone to the western battery.

Coal to fire the kilns was supplied from Mosley Hall Pit on the hillside due south of Bugsworth Basin. To facilitate the supply of coal, the pit was connected to a coal staithe at the junction of Chinley Rd and Weston (Western) Ln by a single-track tramway running down the hillside that was about 563-yards long. The method of transporting coal from the staithe to the kiln heads was not recorded. It could have been transferred to carts, or even wheelbarrows, for the short distance down Chinley Rd and another possibility is that coal tubs were simply hauled down the road. Supplementary coal would also have been boated in from Whaley Bridge and New Mills.

It is known that there was a natural outcrop of the Yard Mine (seam) on the hillside in the vicinity of Mosley Hall and Mosley Hall Pit was opened to tap into this. Coal from the Yard Mine was particularly suited for burning in lime kilns and this gave rise to its alternative name of Kiln Seam. It is likely that Mosley Hall Pit opened at about the same time that the first Gnat Hole lime kilns were built.

It is possible that the earliest lime kilns to be built at Gnat Hole became operational at, or shortly after, the Upper Peak Forest Canal opened for trade on the 31 Aug 1796. A map of 1815 shows three kilns in the east battery but none in the west battery, so it is likely that Mosley Hall Pit opened either in the late 18th or early 19th century. Lime burning at Bugsworth Basin began to decline in the 1880s and as a consequence Mosley Hall Pit might have closed around this time.

In addition to Mosley Hall Pit there were another three pits nearby to the south. One was the Lower Hobcroft Pit but there are no records of the names of the other two.

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