You have to be careful here as the path soon hooked left to descend to the simply breathtaking scar that is De Lank Quarries This huge gash in the hillside has to rank as one of the most fascinating industrial sites that I have visited to date even writing over a year later; at the quarries you can walk amidst the workings of the stonecutters alongside granite
Stone Merchant Huddersfield Grahams Quarries have permanently in stock Walling Stone; York Stone Paving; Rockery Stones; Many more; Cartworth Moor Road Holmfirth Nr Huddersfield West Yorkshire HD9 2RL Phone 01484 683239 or 01484 684152 Email info
Crosland Moor Quarry a small urban ish venue consisting of a number of small quarries End Buttress is the best area especially on sunny afternoons and evenings with 4 notable problems 18 19 20 & 21
A large number of quarries once existed in the area principally to supply sandstone for building Huddersfield Exposed home; Bank Stone Pit Lingards; Bannister Edge Quarry Meltham; Barton Delf Quarry Barton Lane Crosland Moor Quarry SE 0573 1619 Green Slacks Lane Scammonden; Quarry SE 0574 1575 Scammonden; Quarry SE 0577
The Green Moor Rock or Brincliffe Edge Rock and Grenoside Sandstone were particularly significant sources of stone for highway engineering such as paving stone kerbs and gutters Much stone was regularly exported by water transport from the quarries at Greenmoor itself to London where it is referred to as "York Stone" as well as being
The Rokan Stone is an ancient marker stone located on Glaisdale Moor above the south west end of the valley It lies beside the main path to Glaisdale Rigg the medieval Yarlsgate and is about 1/3 mile south west of the Hart Leap Stones and Earthwork Roke is a local term for a dense wet fog
We work a range of natural roofing slates and natural architectural stone from our quarries in Cumbria and the Lake District which have been used for many centuries to enable architects and their clients to create beautiful and functional buildings and landscapes Whether our British slates and stones are used on the building envelope as a roofing slate or natural stone cladding
Hanging Stones carving with twenty first century informal unauthorised carvings added On a very worrying note we need to draw attention to what amounts to the local Ilkley Parish Council officially sanctioning vandalism on the Hanging Stones other prehistoric carvings and uncarved rocks across Ilkley Moor
Scoutmoor Yorkstone is a blue grey to brown coloured stone popular in projects across the UK thanks to its impressive technical performance The strongest type of Yorkstone available in the UK it is perfect for paved applications thanks to its strength durability and class leading slip resistance Suitable for pedestrian and trafficked areas
As a teenager George became a wire drawer but later on worked in the Green Moor stone quarries to supplement the meagre income he would have had from his small hill farm George was musical and played the violin "Austin had an older half sister Mary by George s first wife who died Mary later became a schoolteacher married and lived up
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Established in 1854 the famous Wellfield Quarries came into Johnson s ownership in 1928 and was acquired by the Myers Group some 50 years later Investment has continued under Myers Group stewardship and the business is now at the forefront of the UK stone industry producing in excess of 60 000 square metres of dimensional stone on an annual
Several 19th century quarries can be seen on Ilkley Moor for example Hanging Stones Quarry which was almost worked out by the late 19th century However there are tiny quarries all over the Moor and it is conceivable that these were used by the earlier inhabitants for stone circles enclosures and huts Known Quarries
Stanton Moor Stone and the new visitor centre at Southwell Minster White Mansfield Stone is still an important part of the local economy A study of building stones necessarily involves not only an understanding of the stone and its geology but also some knowledge of a building s history its building methods and local historical
However White Stone Quarry was only one of as many as 22 quarries in Bowling Green that cut and distributed limestone throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries About 10 miles northwest of downtown Bowling Green on the banks of the Gasper River stood the remains of another much smaller operation Caden Quarry
5 Outcrops of slate on the surface would be the source initially developing into open quarries although later the metal would be mined underground Together these deposits have given us the silver grey slates of Coniston Old Man; the green slates of Broughton Moor Hodge Close and Kirkstone; the blue black slates of Brathay and
1 Burlington s British natural slates are naturally strong naturally weatherproof and naturally beautiful and three different slates are produced from the quarries in Cumbria • Burlington blue/grey slate traditional name Lancashire blue/grey • Westmorland green slate • Westmorland green calibrated slate
After steadily ascending a steep section to Hunshelf Bank we cross the Barnsley boundary and an area of five quarries Stone from Green Moor Delf was used to pave outside the Houses of Parliament Sheffield City Hall and the Clock Tower War Memorial in Stocksbridge After a break to absorb the views at the picturesque village of Green Moor
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The quarries of the Tadcaster to Sherburn area have also provided stone for numerous buildings in the City of York York Minster and the City Walls There are currently three active quarries still producing building stone from the formation Top right image is of Sherburn Church middle
Brackenhill Light Railway BLR connected several quarries in Ackworth to the main rail lines and ran through this site The quarry was owned by William W Bowman before its closure Moor Top Quarries and the BLR closed in 1962 Though producing building stone for local use the main output was grindstones and scythe sharpening stones
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