Quarry, Wards Hill
Introduction
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Quarry, Wards Hill
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 12 Nov 2025
While much of Wards Hill is made of limestone, there is a whinstone sill exposed further up the ridge. Image suggests that whinstone was quarried here. Just off shot to the right is the site of a small colliery which was worked into the 1970s.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.266461
Longitude
-1.872661