_Stanedge Pole_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--In answer to your correspondent
A. N., I beg to state that Stanedge Pole is between six and seven miles
from Sheffield, on the boundary line between Yorkshire and Derbyshire,
on a long causeway which was in former times the road from Yorkshire to
Manchester. Its only antiquity consists in having been for centuries one
of the meers marking the boundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's
_Survey of the Manor of Sheffield_, 1637, appears an account of the
boundaries as viewed and seen the 6th of August, 1574, from which the
following is an extract:--
"Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to
Stannedge, which is a meer between the said Lordshipps (of
Hallamshire and Hathersedge).
"Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the
Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of
Hallamshire and Hathersedge."
The situation is a very fine one, commanding a very beautiful and
extensive view of the surrounding country.[3]
[Footnote 3: Its elevation is, according to the Ordnance Survey,
1463 feet.]