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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 ...
Grin Low was the main location in Buxton for the early lime industry. It was an extensive area of limestone quarrying and was licensed for lime burning from 1662 by the 1st Duke of Devonshire. Demand for lime grew dramatically during the Industrial Revolution. There are widespread remains of over 100 large lime kilns, built of earth and rock ...
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.
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).
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He was financially ruined following a shipping disaster in the 1920s, after which the estate was sold to the Bingham family. The land was sold to ICI Lime Industry from the 1930s and the house was eventually demolished in the late 1970s. Tunstead Quarry has now expanded across the original estate. [18] Oriental Tea Kiosk Buxton Pavilion Gardens
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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.