{"id":861364,"date":"2026-08-04T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?page_id=861364"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:37:54","slug":"the-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/the-bus-stop","title":{"rendered":"The Bus Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built for William Wilson as a shelter for his shooting parties ponies. <br \/>Nearby is the fenced off shaft of the Waterloo bell-pit coal mine. The Coal Pit House was here until the 1850s, keeping a 24 hour watch on comings and goings at the mine. Equipment was stored overnight and a night-watchman would patrol the workings to stop thieves stealing coal.<br \/>The shelter seen today is an example of an inappropriate \u2018urban\u2019 folly placed on a moor. Nicknamed the \u2018Bus-Stop\u2019 by Dark Peak Fell Runners it is now mainly used as a picnic shelter, or for a quick stop and regroup on club runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-861365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Bus-Stop.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writings and photograph courtesy of Mike Browell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built for William Wilson as a shelter for his shooting parties ponies. Nearby is the fenced off shaft of the Waterloo bell-pit coal mine. The Coal Pit House was here until the 1850s, keeping a 24 hour watch on comings and goings at the mine. Equipment was stored overnight and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-861364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861366,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861364\/revisions\/861366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}