Spoil heaps at Broomhope
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Spoil heaps at Broomhope
Image: © Pete Saunders Taken: 23 Sep 2007
After Armstrong bought the mineral rights in the Ridsdale and the Broomhope valley area he moved the Ridsdale Iron Works plant and machinery to his site at Elswick. Ironstone continued to be extracted and calcinated in kilns at Broomhope and nearby Hindhaugh, and despatched to Elswick via a mile-long branch line which Armstrong had constructed up Broomhope valley. Around half a million tons had been extracted by 1879 when the deposits became worked out or uneconomic. The spoil heaps have never been levelled and remain extensive to this day.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.150927
Longitude
-2.179478