This old winding house used to house a winding engine, which is a machine that lowers and raises miners and materials into and out of mines. It is a part of the wider Cracken Edge Quarry that closed in the 1900s.

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Location: Chinley, Buxworth And Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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