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The chalk pit was abandoned in 1999, although chalk is occasionally extracted for local use. The quarry remains the property of the Cowdray Estate, who manage it as part of their pheasant shooting. The estate has 18 drives on 3,500 acres at Cocking, with the chalk pit being described as the estate's "signature drive".
Cottonshope Head Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] [2] within Northumberland National Park, Northumberland, England. It is located north of the hamlet of Cottonshopeburnfoot . The site is an abandoned quarry within a military training area.
In 1974 the abandoned Middle Quarry was re-opened, producing architectural slab, and as an attraction to the public - the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Center. The centre offered guided tours of several miles of underground tunnels and chambers and was based in the old Middle Mill, which had been rebuilt for the purpose.
King Barrow Quarry is a disused site of former 19th century stone quarries on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located in the north-east corner of Tophill . The quarry, now a Dorset Wildlife Trust nature reserve, covers 12.2 hectares. [ 1 ]
Maendy Quarry is an abandoned stone quarry near Cardiff in South Wales that was subsequently used in the 1960s as a landfill site for industrial waste.. The site became infamous in the early 1970s when it became clear that toxic industrial waste had been deposited at the site, which included PCBs from Monsanto Newport factory now owned by Eastman.
Lambshouse and Gull Point quarries have some of the best preserved remains of all the quarries along this coast. There is a cluster of three horse or donkey whims where stone was hauled up in buckets at the end of ropes. The best preserved of these which served Gull Point quarry still has its intact mechanism pit and cable tunnels.
In the 1830s the quarry was generating £2000 profits per year (equivalent to £186,792 in 2016). Turner's son took over as manager and renamed the quarry Dorothea, apparently after the wife of the landowner Richard Garnons. Profits began to fall in the 1840s, and in April 1848 the quarry was put up for sale, with 22 years remaining on the ...
Long Grass Quarry (also known as Cliff Quarry [1]) is a small, disused slate quarry between Tintagel and Trebarwith on the north coast of Cornwall, South West England, which was worked up until 1937. It was the last of the slate quarries on this stretch of coast to be abandoned.