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68: Return to Cheesewring
Building London first visited Cheesewring Quarry sited on the south east of Bodmin Moor in 2021 https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/15/7-cheesewring-quarry-on-bodmin-moor/ and returned recently. The Cheesewring quarry is near the village of Minions in Liskeard in Cornwall, once the centre of intense mining, of copper and quarrying. [1] The quarry supplied large amounts of the granite that was used…
67: Merrivale Quarry
Intro Merrivale Quarry, opened as Tor Quarry in 1874, sits above the hamlet of Merrivale on the western flanks of Dartmoor, [1] [2] and across the valley of the river Walkham from Foggintor [3] and Swelltor quarries [4] and like it’s neighbours played an important, though generally more recent, role in building London. Like Foggintor…
66: Haytor Quarry, Dartmoor.
Haytor ( aka Hey Tor ) on the east of the Dartmoor plateau in Devon, near Bovey Tracey, is one of the most famous of Dartmoor’s granite Tors, remnants of 260-290 million year old igneous plutonic intrusions, [1] and the Haytor quarries beneath the tor are famous for their role in building London. Haytor refers…
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