Overview
Lead workings in High Tor Recreation Ground is recorded as Scheduled monument in England Derbyshire Dales. The saved record does not give a safe date. The saved evidence fixes its identity, kind and place, while its maker, exact purpose and events remain open where the source wording is silent.
Why it was made
The record classifies Lead workings in High Tor Recreation Ground as Scheduled monument. It does not safely name its maker or exact purpose, so this first account does not turn the classification into an invented story.
People and events
No particular person, ceremony, death, battle or local event is established by the saved wording. A similarly named place elsewhere has not been used to fill that gap.
How it worked
Its recorded form is Scheduled monument. The saved evidence does not explain its construction or day-to-day use beyond that classification.
What remains
The place is saved as inside public local-area border. That may be an exact structure, surviving earthwork, find spot or centre of a broader area; this account keeps that difference open.
Why it mattered
The record preserves Lead workings in High Tor Recreation Ground as part of the area's physical memory and gives readers a source and place from which to follow its history. Wider importance and local lore are not invented where evidence is absent.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
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- Old Milestone by the A6, High Tor Hotelmonument0.2 miles
- Children's playground — Derbyshire Dalesattraction0.2 miles
- High Tor Hotelbuilding0.3 miles
- Artists Cornerforest0.3 miles
- Matlock Bath Stationbuilding0.3 miles
- Cliffe Housebuilding0.3 miles
- Heights of Abrahamattraction0.3 miles
- Ringing Rake Soughcave0.3 miles
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