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Dulcote Quarry in 2006. Dulcote Quarry is a disused limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.The quarry measures around 600 metres (2,000 ft) from West to East and around 350 metres (1,150 ft) from North to South, with an area of 18 acres (7.3 ha), which is surrounded by 80 acres (32 ha) of woodland.
Scotgate Ash Quarry or Scot Gate Ash Quarry, [note 1] was the collective name for extensive quarry workings that were on the northern edge of Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England. When the quarry was last in use, the area was in the West Riding of Yorkshire , and was described as being the largest quarry in West Yorkshire.
The disused quarries date from the 17th and 18th centuries and were the source of Bath stone for the city of Bath and elsewhere in the UK. A five-year project to stabilise the quarry workings was largely completed by November 2009.
Mulberry Downs Quarry is a disused opencast tin mine in Cornwall, England, UK. Today the site is described as a 'chasm' being a steep or sheer-sided pit 700 foot (210 m) long and up to 100 foot (30 m) deep, and the quarry and immediate surroundings are heavily wooded.
Gillow State Quarry is a small, disused slate quarry between Tintagel and Trebarwith on the north coast of Cornwall, South West England. The quarry was abandoned by the turn of the 20th century. The quarry was abandoned by the turn of the 20th century.
This disused and partly overgrown quarry is in 26 hectares of ancient mixed woodland located near West Farleigh. It provides an important site for the study of cambering (slope movement). Ragstone and hassock layers are well exposed, and the rocks are the same as those in which the fossil remains of an Iguanodon fossil were discovered at ...
It is a disused ironstone quarry, located just over 1 km north of the village of Westgate, in Weardale. At West Rigg, the Slitt Vein, a 20 km-long quartz intrusion in the Namurian Great Limestone , is exposed at the surface; the exposure is up to 5 m wide over a distance of some 200 m.
The main wall of the quarry in 2008. Trowbarrow Quarry is a disused limestone quarry near Silverdale, Lancashire, England, which is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] [2] and a Local Nature Reserve. [3] [4] It is a popular rock climbing area. [5]