Old Quarry, Rastrick
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Old Quarry, Rastrick
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 10 Jun 2006
These old quarries seem to lose their cliff faces and become grassy hollows. This one is in the middle of a hay meadow. The field is called Whinny Common on the 1824 township map and the quarry is shown as a sandstone quarry on the 1850 OS map.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.683499
Longitude
-1.804649