A glaciofluvial pebble in Throapham |
Once I had finished photographing the interior of St. John’s church in Throapham, where my new Canon G7X Powershot camera had worked as well as my previous G16, I had a wander along the path at the side of the church to take a couple of shots of its exterior.
Here, I found yet another scattering of glaciofluvial pebbles, such as I had encountered on several walks undertaken in rural Rotherham in the past year during the COVID-19 Pandemic – at Letwell, Firbeck, Brancliffe Grange, Thorpe Salvin, Kiveton Park and Todwick.
My plan for the day was to firstly explore St. John’s church and then follow the Magnesian Limestone escarpment to South Anston, where I would then catch an X5 bus to take me to either Swallownest or Sheffield Interchange and connect with the X54 bus back to Treeton.
Continuing down St. John’s Road to the junction with Oldcotes Road, I found more pebbles in the adjoining fields and I could clearly see the low Magnesian Limestone escarpment rising above the relatively low lying land underlain by the Pennine Upper Coal Measures Formation strata.
As had now become the pattern for the year, I also wanted to contribute further photos to the British Listed Buildings website and I therefore went to have a quick look at Throapham, before carrying on with my walk towards Dinnington.
Walking up the gentle escarpment here, I was interested to see further examples of pink limestone, like I had seen in St. John’s church and, as I had discovered a couple of months earlier at nearby Letwell, this colouration is quite common in the area.
The most substantial building in Throapham is the Grade II Listed Throapham House, a substantial plain ashlar house built in the late C18, surrounded by a few stone built cottages and agricultural buildings forming the hamlet that grew up around the now demolished Throapham Manor House.
On Manor Lane, I encountered an old boundary wall next to the former gateway to the manor house that has the remnants of a stile, which surprisingly still has a wrought iron handrail, which presumably once served the public footpath here.
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