Disused sandstone quarry beside Nant Melyn
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Disused sandstone quarry beside Nant Melyn
Image: © Alan Bowring Taken: 15 Jul 2009
These beds of lower Coal Measures sandstone were presumably worked for building stone and hauled out along Heol y Cwar/Quarry Road. The quarry lies beside the public footpath which runs north from the head of this road.
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Image Location
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51.815732
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