Stonebreakers Hut

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Isle of Man TT Course
Stonebreakers Hut
Coordinates: 54°16′01″N 4°26′53″W / 54.267, -4.448
OS grid ref.	SC405885
Parish	Lonan
Course distance	29.50 mi (47 km)
Preceded by	George's Folly
Followed by	Verandah

The Stonebreakers Hut or Black Hut is an acute left-hand corner on the primary A18 road in the parish of Lonan in the Isle of Man.

The Stonebreakers Hut is situated between the 29th Milestone and 30th Milestone on the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A18 Mountain Road and was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1911.

During the first lap of the 1934 Isle of Man TT Lightweight Race, Syd Crabtree, the winner of the 1929 Lightweight Race crashed at the Stonebreakers Hut on the Mountain Section and was killed.

This section of road including the Verandah Bends was subject to road-widing and re-profiled during the winter of 1970/1971 road-widening occurs on the A18 Mountain Road at Verandah and Stonebreakers Hut by cutting into the hillside.^[1]^[2] The two building structures that were owned by the Isle of Man Highway Board were removed in the 1980s but the corner retained the name on the Mountain Course of the Stonebreakers Hut.

[edit] Sources

^ Isle of Man Weekly Times pp1 dated 6th January 1971
^ TT News 2006 Preview Edition pp2

[edit] External links

Mountain Mile to Verandah with Steve Hislop, 11 times TT winner
Map of course

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Snaefell Mountain Course

TT Grandstand - St Ninian's Crossroads - Bray Hill - Quarterbridge - Braddan Bridge - Union Mills - Ballahutchin Hill - Glenlough - Ballagarey Corner - Glen Vine - Crosby Cross-Roads - Highlander - Greeba Castle - Appledene - Greeba Bridge - Gorse Lea - Ballagarraghyn - Ballacraine - Ballaspur - Ballig - Doran's Bend - Laurel Bank - Black Dub - Glen Helen - Cronk Urleigh - Sarah's Cottage - Creg Willey's Hill - Lambfell Cottage - Cronk-y-Voddy - 11th Milestone - Handley's Corner - Barregarrow - 13th Milestone - Westwood Corner - Douglas Road Corner - Rhencullen - Birkin's Bends - Bishopscourt - Orrisdale North - Dub Cottage - Alpine Cottage - Ballaugh Bridge - Ballacrye Corner - Quarry Bends - Sulby Straight - Sulby Bridge - Ginger Hall - Kerrowmoar - Glen Duff - Glentramman - Churchtown - Lezayre War Memorial - Sky Hill - Milntown Cottage - Gardener's Lane - School House Corner - Parliament Square - Cruickshanks Corner - Whitegates - Stella Maris - Ramsey Hairpin - Water Works Corner - Tower Bends - Gooseneck - 26th Milestone - Guthrie's Memorial - Mountain Mile - East Mountain Gate - Mountain Box - George's Folly - Stonebreakers Hut - Verandah - Bungalow Bridge - Bungalow - Hailwood Rise - Brandywell - 32nd Milestone - Windy Corner - 33rd Milestone - Clark's Corner - Keppel Gate - Kate's Cottage - Creg-ny-Baa - Gob-ny-Geay - Brandish Corner - Hillberry Corner - Cronk-ny-Mona - Signpost Corner - Bedstead Corner - The Nook - Governor's Bridge