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Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update

Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 18 February 2004  Page Views: 35969

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Stanton Moor submitted by PaulM : The Protestors' camp on Stanton Moor, close to the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, Derbyshire. (Vote or comment on this photo)
It has been reported that papers have been served on the Nine Ladies protest camp as part of gaining a possession order. The case is due to come to court on Thursday 22 January 2004.

The commencement of the legal action follows swiftly on the heels of the submission Stancliffe Stone's revised environmental impact assessment to the Peak District National Park Authority as previously reported on The Megalithic Portal.

A technical summary of the submission can be found here and if you have any comments they should be sent to the Peak District National Park Authority as soon as possible.

In response to the move the Nine Ladies Campaign state that "people are urgently needed to help sort out defences, and to be there if eviction follows shortly after. Climbers have and are being approached.


Note: National press and now BBC R4 get wind of this important stand off. CPRE now comment, see below.
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Re: so called landowner by Anonymous on Tuesday, 20 January 2009
TIS ALL OVER !!! THE HILL IS SAFE !!! YIPPETEEDINGDANGDODAHDOOLALEEE

Tears of joy roll down my cheek.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/puffbox/hyperpuff/audiovideo/england/7838773.stm

Never been a better day . . .

Rock on
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so called landowner by Anonymous on Friday, 04 July 2008
Why not phone Adrian Thornhill (so called landowner) and tell him what you think of his illegal blocking of the laybys and his non-signing of the land swap agreement.

His number is: 01629 636423
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Monday, 22 January 2007
please email [email protected] and let me know what I can do to help.

rainbows and respect

Fiona
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Monday, 31 July 2006
Ladies Update: Stones looking and feeling good. Butterflies and birds everywhere. Sheep oblivious. Lots of litter left by muggles (less now I have been). New firepits near to stones. Will be working an a heather transplant system to start to cover all firepits - anybody fancy helping?

Site Update: Plenty of people up there and all positive and ready. They need support in the form of food and useful things. Get up there and do something to help protect this mighty Ur Temple.

Please do all you can to help as this moor belongs to all of us . . .
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Thursday, 05 January 2006
Please help us to stop this disastrous destruction of a sacred and magical landscape. We are the only people who will do anything so please do as much as you can.
Support the protestors with food, visits and positive thoughts.
They have recently moved their attack to 2 other quarries and also want to build a haul road (packed with heavy lorries) that goes right past Doll Tor - a place that needs no lorries.
You have the power to stop this - do something about it NOW - letters, protests, raising general awareness etc etc.

Love to all with thoughts of the Ladies in their hearts . . .
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Tuesday, 23 August 2005
Hi All

I moved to the area early this year and I visited the Nine Ladies on sunday afternoon as it was a lovely day.I heard about this quarrying and so I did a search and came across this.Am wih you all on this as I wouldn't want the lovely countryside spoilt by bulldozers and whatever.Its so lovely and peaceful.I passed your camp on the way home and I thought about coming and taking a closer look myself and having a chat to a few to you all and see if there was anything you wanted.Am I ok to come and see you or is that not possible.Let me know.

Regards

Rockyuk

email ... [email protected]
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Monday, 01 August 2005
Ive just been to Stanton Moor for the 1st time and im stunned that anybody in their right mind would consider mining this beautiful place.

This must not happen under any circumstances.
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Tuesday, 07 June 2005
hi.hope all is well at stanton.
will be there to celebrate the solstice.
keep up the good work.bob @ urbanfox.
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Friday, 13 May 2005
Any news on the final high court decision yet? I was informed it would be by the end of March . . . now it's May and I am still waiting to hear anything . . . will be going there tonight so will get info from protest site and post back on monday.

The stones are calling me !!

Guybongo
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Wednesday, 13 April 2005
MUCH LOVE TO EVERYONE THINKING ABOUT THE LADIES
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Monday, 14 March 2005
Everyone on site seems fairly positive about the current situation. Go and visit them and take food, candles, rope and a smile. You will be welcomed with open arms. The stones themselves also seem full of energy at the moment - maybe they are anticipating the victory over quarrying . . .
Djembe power . . .
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by stavares on Tuesday, 15 February 2005
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The Nine Ladies circle has healing properties, as I can testify. On my only visit there, in the 1980's. I was cured of a blinding headache, which disappeared within minutes of sitting on one of the stones.

Thank you to all those people who are fighting to save our ancient heritage in this amazing area - so many stone circles, but none as important or as accessible to the people as this one is.
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 December 2004
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Yes, just do a search for Nine Ladies in the search box.
Good luck,
Andy
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Wednesday, 01 December 2004
do you have any nine ladies pictures. I am doing about this protest in Geography. Thanks, Lauren 13.
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Thursday, 23 September 2004
Nine ladies forever - the most amazing place in Britain. Forget your Stonehenge - get yourself up to Nine Ladies. Bring drums and food/rope etc for protest site. You will be welcomed with open arms. I am there every weekend - on site and at the stones. Sprites, pixies and shooting stars will all come with you.

Get your clothes off - let's have a party.

Fight for anything you believe in and don't give in til you win or die . . .

Guybongo
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Monday, 28 June 2004
god you must be on some wicked stuff ;-))
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Re: Stancliffe Stone vs Nine Ladies protest camp eviction update by Anonymous on Friday, 18 June 2004
HI, I think it is a really good idea and you should fight for what you believe is right.
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Re: Reuters report on Nine Ladies - eco warriors take to trees to fight quarry by Anonymous on Thursday, 22 April 2004
rubish
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Reuters report on Nine Ladies - eco warriors take to trees to fight quarry by Anonymous on Monday, 19 April 2004
Eco warriors take to trees to fight quarry
Mon 29 March, 2004 22:00

By Meg Clothier

NINE LADIES' CAMP (Reuters) - Bill has swapped his homemade caravan complete with blue polythene portico and anti-rat defences for a house, accessible only by rope walkway, nestled in a tree on a muddy Derbyshire hillside.

This week Bill, who preferred not to give his second name, and other eco warriors are fine-tuning their anti-bailiff defences in the Peak District, fearing an eviction order could turn them off the land and the land into a quarry.

Leaseholder Stancliffe Stone Company is planning to re-open the Endcliffe and Lees Cross quarries after it has finalised discussions with the Peak District National Park Authority.

In anticipation, the band of around fifty protesters, some resident since 1999, have been dreaming up schemes to prevent them being thrown off the site, which is near the Bronze Age Nine Ladies stone circle and several ancient burial mounds.

As well as his...

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Protest group in battle for the Dales - from Sheffield Today by Andy B on Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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Eco-warriors campaigning against plans to reopen a quarry near Bakewell, Derbyshire, have lived in woods for four-and-a-half years. Reporter David Walsh joined them for the day

From Sheffield Today, 21st February 2004 with a photo of Paul the protester in his tree house.

PAUL slides carefully across a slender rope bridge to his home 70ft up a tree.
When he reaches the structure, complete with wooden door and glass window, he breathes deeply - and scents victory.
For the 28-year-old knows his treehouse, in woods below the Nine Ladies Bronze Age stone circle in the Derbyshire Dales, is just one of dozens of shelters, ropeways and tunnels designed to make anti-quarrying protesters fiendishly difficult to remove.
Then there is the tortuous terrain which includes 100ft cliffs and steep overgrown slopes littered with treacherous boulders. And the 38-acre size of site means any attempt to throw a cordon round the camp would require possibly thousands of security guards and cost a...

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    bailiffs appointed by Anonymous on Wednesday, 19 May 2004
    LEYSHONS IN SWANSEA HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AS THE BAILIFFS FOR THE POSSIBLE EVICTION. MARTIN LEYSHON IS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH BRIAN WALLACE OF STANCLIFFE STONE AND INFORMATION SUGGESTS AN UPCOMING MEET IN MATLOCK BETWEEN THE TWO.
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Guardian article (28/02/04): Oops, there goes another bit of Britain by PaulM on Sunday, 29 February 2004
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Driving along the A6, it's not immediately obvious that the Peak District might well be England's most important national park. In fact, it's easy to forget you're in a park at all - there are plenty of pretty towns and old farms lining the river valleys, and old mills and stone-walled inns worthy of an urbanite's cosiest drinking dream - but the dramatic, bleakly beautiful heights of the southern Pennines are most often obscured by steep dales or low mists.

The Peak (as locals call it) is about leisure as much as landscape. The 555 square-mile national park is a lung for the people of Manchester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield and Stoke. The first national park, it was created in 1951 precisely to put a green belt between these sprawling conurbations. It's visited by some 22m people each year (only Japan's Mount Fuji's national park tops it). And, if it lacks Cumbria's photogenic lakes, the Peak's landscape of gritstone outcrops, limestone crags, heather and peat moorland - Daniel...

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Re: Protesters dig in after new support by Walrus on Sunday, 22 February 2004
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Time to organise a tourist boycott of Haddon Hall, don't just bankrupt the quarry company, take out the irresponsible landowner too.
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Protesters dig in after new support by Anonymous on Wednesday, 18 February 2004
Robert Bottomley in the Manchester
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ECO-WARRIORS camped at one of Britain's longest-running protest sites have fresh backing in their fight to stop the re-opening of two Peak District quarries.

Bailiffs are poised to evict about 50 protesters, many who have been camped in treehouses and tepees at Stanton Moor, near Matlock, Derbyshire, for four years.

But the protesters have now been backed by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, which says re-opening the dormant quarries will damage the environment.

Quarry company Stancliffe Stone wants to re-open Endcliffe and Lees quarries to extract the high quality sandstone and has been granted an eviction order on protesters.

The company has drawn up a dossier which it says proves that quarrying can resume without causing environmental damage and has submitted plans for an even bigger quarrying operation than it initially proposed.

Stone circle

But Andy Tickle, of the CPRE, said: "The experts we...

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BBC R4 report on the Stancliffe Stone quarry proposals at Stanton Moor by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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Now picked up by BBC Radio 4 'Today'. Whatever happened to the eco-warriors? Bob Walker reports. Real Audio
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Re: Sacred Sites Porject press release by Thorgrim on Monday, 16 February 2004
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Gravel extraction, terrifying housing expansion, relaxation of planning laws, ongoing rape of green belts, new roads, new motorways, gross airport expansions...

So who really cares?

Not the heritage industry - they want ticket sales, tearooms and tourists
Not the government - they want more houses, businesses and airports
Not local authorities - they want more Council Tax
Not local people - they want better shops, hospitals and schools
Not motorists - they want better roads and motorways
Not archaeologists - they want to excavate and destroy (Seahenge!)
Not the public - they want prehistory neatly packaged in gift shops
Not the media - they want stories and TV specials

Who cares? We care.

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Song of a Stone

I am a stone, born of the earth.
Flint men dug me, prised me, moved me,
Levered and rolled me, raised me, stood me.
Circled round with kin folk, stone folk.

Time blinked, stars turned, stones wept.
New men fell...

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Re: Sacred Sites Porject press release by TimPrevett on Sunday, 15 February 2004
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The National Press at last Get Wind of this Important Stand Off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1148126,00.html

Protesters dig in to save landscape from quarry: 'It'll cost millions to get us out'

John Vidal, environment editor
Saturday February 14, 2004
The Guardian

One of Britain's most historic landscapes is about to become the scene of a passionate encounter between conservationists, local communities and industry as protesters start to flock to a small valley in the Peak District national park.
At stake are the long abandoned Endcliffe and Lees Cross quarries at Stanton Lees in Derbyshire. Overgrown with ash, birch and beech trees on steeply sloping land leading up to the bronze age Nine Sisters stone circle ancient monument on the moor above, they have been worked for many centuries on a small scale to provide local stone. But they are about to be massively expanded to provide 3.2m tonnes of some of the most sought-after sandstone in Britain. ...

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Sacred Sites Porject press release by Vicky on Friday, 13 February 2004
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Whose quarry? Whose landscape?
A Peak District dilemma peaks

Issued by the Sacred Sites project - www.sacredsites.org.uk
13 February 2004

A storm is brewing on Stanton Moor - an area of natural beauty famed for its wildlife and its archaeology, in the Derbyshire Peak District, where quarrying proposals and spiritual and ecological concerns meet head-on. A protest camp, an application to reopen quarries, and aristocratic landowners all seem part of the plot. 'It's yet another example of conflicting interests and values in today's Britain - where land use permissions and rights to mineral exploitation meet intangible ideas of heritage and spirituality, how do you judge the issue?' says Dr Jenny Blain of Sheffield Hallam University.

Dr Blain and Dr Robert Wallis of Richmond University in London direct the Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project, based at Sheffield Hallam. Their project recently had Economic and Social Research Council funding (grant number...

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Eco Warriors try to hit company where it hurts, the pocket by Anonymous on Thursday, 12 February 2004
Eco Warriors send profits warning to Marshalls Plc - Press Release from the protestors:

Environmental activists who have taken possession of Endcliffe and Lees Cross quarry sites adjacent to Nine Ladies Stone Circle in Derbyshire have warned Marshalls Plc, and their subsidiary Stancliffe Stone Ltd, that they will face unprecedented and damaging costs if they attempt an eviction.

“We have been here for over four years” said one activist who did not wish to be named “ and we have been very busy. The people here are not going to go quietly, and we have constructed some serious defensive positions. Four years is a long time to prepare for an eviction, and we learned a lot from the evictions of road protest sites at Fairmile and Stanworth. Our technical expertise in tunnelling, bunkers, lock-ons and logistical support to withstand a siege is on a different level from previous sites, quite apart from the length of time we have been digging in.

This is a hard site – the terrain is...

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    Re: Eco Warriors try to hit company where it hurts, the pocket by Anonymous on Monday, 19 April 2004
    Hello there,
    after failing everything else, I hope this works: Could some one put me in contact with the protesters, please. I am a foreign correspondent from Germany working on the Nine Ladie's/quarry story. My e-mail-address is [email protected].
    I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Claudia.
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Re: The Nine Ladies protest camp eviction process starts by TimPrevett on Thursday, 22 January 2004
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Is it worth trying to get more local media interest in what happens? as well as folk with cameras, camcorders too, to document what may (or may not!) happen? I remember the news stories from the late 80s and 90s of road protest camps being evicted. It would be one way of highlighting the plight of the moor, and the circle. Help 'make a noise' about it.
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    Re: The Nine Ladies protest camp eviction process starts by Anonymous on Friday, 18 June 2004
    I believe that the more press these people get, the more chance they have of making a difference and we should all stand by them. I think they are great for taking action for what they think is right as so many others probably agree with them but don't have the guts to do anything, which is a shame.
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