Big Rock Wall

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The photograph on this page of Big Rock Wall by Des Blenkinsopp as part of the Geograph project.

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Big Rock Wall

Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 28 Apr 2015

Granite quarrying on Kit Hill went on into the 1950s. To the untrained eye it looks like half of what they dug out they didn't bother with. There's so much granite just dumped in heaps up here.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.522842
Longitude
-4.292806