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.