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Map of Buxton's limestone quarries and freight railways The Buxton lime industry has been important for the development of the town of Buxton in Derbyshire, England, and it has shaped the landscape around the town. Geology The White Peak area of the Peak District is named after the limestone plateau landscape of the ' Derbyshire Dome '. This limestone outcrop is surrounded by a horseshoe ...
Grin Low is a hill overlooking Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. The summit is 434 metres (1,424 ft) above sea level. [1] Remains of a lime kiln at Grin Low. Grin Low was the main location for the early Buxton lime industry. It was an extensive area of limestone quarrying and was licensed for lime burning from 1662 by the 1st Duke Of ...
The site near Harpur Hill, south of Buxton, was worked as a limestone quarry. [1] Small-scale lime burning had taken place near Harpur Hill since at least the 1600s, initially around Grin Low near Poole's Cavern to the north, using lime kilns to produce quicklime by calcinating the limestone (mainly Bee Low Limestones) quarried nearby (that is, heating calcium carbonate to produce calcium oxide).
Three lime kilns built about 1865, built into the side of a hill behind a solid stone wall, 20 to 30 feet high. Operated into the next century. Levan Farm , a historic house and farm complex in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed.
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This section of route is still open for stone freight trains serving the Buxton lime industry; it is known as the Great Rocks Line. The northbound station building still survives, [3] as offices which support the large quarry terminal close by. A short section of one platform has been reinstated for railway staff use.
The village of California is located near the headwaters of the stream. Pennsylvania Route 254 is also in the stream's vicinity. [10] A total of 72.7 percent of the watershed of Limestone Run is agricultural land, 13.4 percent is forest, 11.8 percent is low-intensity development, and 1.5 percent is high-intensity development.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]