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There were three major granite quarries on the moor: Haytor, Foggintor and Merrivale. The granite quarries around Haytor were the source of the stone used in several famous structures, including the New London Bridge, completed in 1831. This granite was transported from the moor via the Haytor Granite Tramway, stretches of which are still visible.
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Haytor quarry The granite below the tor has fewer large feldspar crystals than at the tor itself, and this was preferred for building. [ 12 ] There are several quarries on the northern slopes of Haytor down which were worked intermittently between 1820 and 1919. [ 12 ]
The Haytor Granite Tramway (also called Heytor [1]) was a tramway built to convey granite from Haytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon to the Stover Canal. It was very unusual in that the track was formed of granite sections, shaped to guide the wheels of horse-drawn wagons .
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In 1825 Templer formed the Company of the Proprietors of the Devon Haytor Quarries, which soon became a joint-stock company, with capital of £200,000 and offices in Broad Street, London. [6] He built accommodation for the quarry workers near to his quarries, including in 1825–6 a row of houses and a hostel (now the Rock Inn) at Haytor Vale. [20]
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Owens Quarry, a limestone quarry and crusher plant near Marion, Ohio, around which the community of Owens, Ohio grew. Ridgeway Site , in Hardin County, Ohio , a former archaeological site which, during excavation of its gravel, yielded numerous artifacts and buried bodies of the Glacial Kame culture , for which it is the type site.