Ridge Quarry
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Ridge Quarry
Image: © Noel Jenkins Taken: 22 Aug 2010
A Bath Stone quarry that was used during WW1 to store explosives. In the lead up to WW2 it was converted into a major ammunition storage depot, part of the Central Ammunition Depot that included nearby Tunnel Quarry and Monkton Farleigh. The RAF cleared the last bombs from Ridge in 1955 and the site was sold off by the MoD in 1975.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.410877
Longitude
-2.183991