Gwenlais Quarry
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Gwenlais Quarry
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 28 Sep 2016
Seen through the gloom of drizzle and hill mist, this huge limestone quarry once fed nearby industrial scale lime kilns to produce lime for the iron and steel industries of South Wales. Now disused and part of the Carmel National Nature Reserve.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.830148
Longitude
-4.027999