Quarry workings, Botany
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Quarry workings, Botany
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 17 May 2014
Coal measures limestone is exposed here and was quarried for lime which was required to sweeten the usual acid soils found on the fell sandstone nearby.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.516957
Longitude
-1.85301