Kerridge Hill

The white-washed, sugarloaf-shaped folly was erected in 1817 for John Gaskell Junior of North End Farm, as a monument to the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo.

The ashlar sandstone block, at the base of a dry stone wall, is designated Grade II on the national heritage list.

[7] In the mid-1940s, the Royal Signal Corps Trials Unit based at Catterick would drive a truck-mounted dish-shaped transmitter/receiver up onto Kerridge Hill.

Here they tested cathode-ray tube transmission and reception (data-based, not images), to a mobile receiving station on another truck.

[9] The Peak District Boundary Walk long-distance footpath follows the same route along the ridge as the Gritstone Trail but continues through Bollington.

White Nancy monument on Kerridge Hill in 2014
British Army Signals Trials Unit testing cathode ray signals on Kerridge Hill 1948