Fresh rock

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Fresh rock by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.

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Fresh rock

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 27 Mar 2017

The banks around the Siston Brook used to have plenty of small quarries that made much of the local Pennant stone; indeed, much of Bristol's early 1900s buildings are made of it. These days this is the only fresh extraction.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.434476
Longitude
-2.484745