Saturday, 25 May 2019

High Wheeldon

High Wheeldon is next to an un-named road between Earl Sterndale and High Needham, close to the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border. The summit has an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar with a plaque commemorating the men of Derbyshire and Staffordshire who died during the Second World War.



The plaque reads.
HIGH WHEELDON 1384 FEET
THIS PROPERTY WAS PRESENTED
TO THE NATIONAL TRUST ON
NOV. 11TH. 1946 BY
F. A. HOLMES M.A. J.P. OF BUXTON
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF DERBYSHIRE AND
STAFFORDSHIRE WHO FELL
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945







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