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| HER Number: | MDV105666 |
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| Name: | Wheelpit at Ridd Incline near Weare Gifford |
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Summary
Large arched chamber below the canal which housed a 32 feet diameter, 7 feet wide waterwheel. The waterwheel drove, through a series of gears, a horizontal chain wheel which turned the endless chain by which tub boats were hauled up and down the 220 feet inclined plane. A crudely constructed fireplace in the personnel entrance chamber was added when the chamber, having been filled upto ground level, was converted to a railway workman's hut.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 463 223 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS42SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Monkleigh |
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| District | Torridge |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | MONKLEIGH |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- WHEEL PIT (Built, XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))
Full description
Hassall, C., 2004, Ridd Wheelpit: Update 9th August 2004 (Report - Interim). SDV348236.
Exploratory excavations in 2004 removed a quantity of accumulated soil from the personnel entrance chamber to the wheelpit revealing the soffitt and upper two feet of the passage leading to the wheel chamber. An interesting and unexpected feature of the personnel entrance chamber was a crudely constructed fireplace with a sagging iron lintel and rough brickwork with an external chimney. Its illogical positioning in the wall led to conclusion that the chamber, having been filled in upto ground level, had been converted to a railway workman's hut, a fact confirmed by the find of a pottery sherd in the spoil bearing the Southern Railway logo.
Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.
Bodman, M., 2012, Inclined Planes in the South-West, 53-4 (Monograph). SDV355078.
Large arched chamber below the canal which housed a 32 feet diameter, 7 feet wide waterwheel. The waterwheel drove, through a series of gears, a horizontal chain wheel which turned the endless chain by which tub boats were hauled up and down the 220 feet inclined plane. The plane was in operation from 1827 until 1870 when it disappeared under the construction of the railway.
Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.
Ruined structure shown.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV346129 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2011. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey. Map (Digital). |
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| SDV348236 | Report - Interim: Hassall, C.. 2004. Ridd Wheelpit: Update 9th August 2004. Rolle Canal & Northern Devon Waterways Society Report. rol-cn23. A4 Single Sheet + Digital. |
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| SDV350786 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2013. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #65096 ] |
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| SDV355078 | Monograph: Bodman, M.. 2012. Inclined Planes in the South-West. Inclined Planes in the South-West. Paperback Volume. 53-4. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV546 | Related to: Inclined Plane on the Torrington Canal near Weare Gifford (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV5627 - Excavations at Inclined Plane Wheelpit, Ridd
| Date Last Edited: | Dec 12 2013 4:08PM |
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