High Peak Trail (3)

This stone is on the north-western portal of Newhaven Tunnel. (For one on the south-eastern portal, see the previous picture.)

In the centre is a picture of a wagon, and the Latin motto "Divina Palladis Arte" ("By the divine skill of Pallas"), a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid - Pallas (or Athene) being the Greek goddess of arts and crafts. The circular inscription reads: "Cromford & High Peak Railway Comp[an]y Incorporated 1825".

The stone also commemorates "Jos[ia]s Jessop Esqr Engineer", who designed the railway but died in 1826 before it was completed, and "Wm Brittlebank Esqr", the company attorney and one of a family of lawyers from Oddo House, Winster.

(Something happened when I took this photo - see here.)

Picture taken: November 2014

Page last updated: 4 June 2021