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Tourism Conflicts YORKSHIRE DALES Quarrying Farming Solutions Suitable Summary Today we have… • understood how quarrying is a suitable land use for the Yorkshire Dales. • learnt the social, economic and environmental impacts …
North Yorkshire County Council, Yorkshire Dales National Park Committee Folder Containing Photographs and Documents Relating to Upper Ribblesdale Quarries. HHG/049 ... Undated handwritten notebook describing work at the limestone quarries of Horton hhg049_002. Undated colour photograph taken near South House of possible quarry site. hhg049_003.
primarily supplied into West Yorkshire from quarries situated within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. However approximately 40% of the Magnesian Limestone quarries covered by this report are thought to capable of producing aggregates of sufficient strength to be used as a road sub-base or as a concrete aggregate. 3.4.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park contains approximately half of all Britain's limestone pavement. ... one (Ribblehead Quarry) in the Great Scar Limestone Group in the north and two (Ingleton and Old Ingleton Quarries) in the Ingleton …
The Dales Way Long Distance Footpath passes through Dentdale, the Rawthey and Lune valleys. The 259 mile long circular Cumbria Cycleway passes through Sedbergh and Garsdale and the Yorkshire Dales cycleway passes through Dentdale. + Buildings and Settlement Lower Dentdale is situated upon Great Scar Limestone where the Yoredale Limestones are thin.
Horton is a large quarry situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park covering almost 80ha, and is surrounded by SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and SAC (Special Areas of Conservation) areas which include Limestone pavement areas. The quarry extracts Carboniferous Limestone to produce a variety of aggregates for use in our own ready ...
Limestone Country. Much of the Yorkshire Dales area is "limestone country", the geology of which gives rise to the area's spectacular natural and unique karstic features, including limestone cliffs (such as Malham Cove) and limestone gorges (such as Gordale Scar), as well as some of the finest examples of limestone pavements in Europe. Different types of carboniferous limestone …
The document describes several limestone features found in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the UK. It explains the limestone pavement at Malham formed from weathering along joints and bedding planes. It also describes how swallow holes allow water to disappear underground, later resurging where impermeable rock is encountered.
Quarrying limestone, for example, is big business in the Yorkshire Dales today, because limestone has so many uses. About 5 million tonnes of the rock are extracted each year from quarries located within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Quarrying has two major advantages: It provides the raw materials for the huge (and increasing) demand for ...
The Yorkshire Dales National Park was designated in 1954 in large part due to its stunning geology. ... Limestone Pavement. ... Moraine. Mountain/Fell. Other. Quarries/Mines. Reef Knoll. Scar/Crag. Sinkholes. Spring/Resurgence. Waterfalls. Walks Ribblesdale. An introduction to the fascinating geology of Ribblesdale, Chapel-le-Dale and ...
The Yorkshire Dales is a national park in Northern England, spanning the counties of North Yorkshire and Cumbria. ... is a large scale public artwork functioning as an array of platforms from which visitors can view both the spectacular quarry hole and limestone quarrying operation, and the landscape of the Dales.
Johnson, David (2002) Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales Stroud: Tempus. Raistrick, A (1960) 'Story of the lime kiln' The Dalesman Vol 22 pp544-545. White, Robert (1994) 'Lime Kilns' North Craven Heritage Trust Bulletin pp5-6. Wright, G N (1967) 'Lime kilns of the Pennine Dales' The Yorkshire Ridings Vol 4:4 pp33-35
As the title suggests, this dissertation aims to outline the key effects limestone quarrying has on water quality within rivers, with a particular focus on the River Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales. The Yorkshire Dales is a limestone rich area, which is mainly exploited for construction purposes, and the exploitation is likely to increase in the ...
The presence of limestone and other types of rock in the Yorkshire Dales has led to the development of several large industrial quarries where materials are extracted for use as e.g. …
The Hoffman Kiln in the Yorkshire Dales. Technical details: Nikon D4 camera, 24-70mm Nikkor lens with an exposure of 1/5th second @ f6.3, ISO250.
Coldstones Quarry is a large limestone quarry near Greenhow on the moors above Pateley Bridge in the Yorkshire Dales. The quarry is unusual in that it is sited on high ground, and is thus less …
Coldstones Quarry and its Lime Kiln have been part of this rugged and windswept part of the Yorkshire Dales for more than a century. When the quarry opened, the local hills were scarred with quarries. Today, Coldstones Quarry is the last one remaining in Nidderdale (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is part of the Yorkshire Dales).
Basins and dales of limestones and shales Two distinct regions: Askrigg Block = Limestone dales Craven, Harrogate, Bowland = Shale basins Up on the blocks Granite-buoyed high LIMY: 3. Yoredale Group 2. Great Scar Limestone Gp 1. Ravenstonedale Group
Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines. An Illustrated History. Author(s): Dr David Johnson; 15th June 2016. Paperback. 96. 180. 234. 165. ... Almost every parish has abandoned quarries that exploited limestone, sandstone, flagstone, millstone grit, chert – or what quarrymen used to call granite and slate. Quarrying was a major local industry ...
Limestone pavements; Caves; Quarries; You might also like; Deck the Dales with boughs of holly 2024 ; 75 years of National Parks marked in the Yorkshire Dales ; Merry Markets & Festive Fairs in the Yorkshire Dales 2024 ; Natural flood …
The quarries have important stories to tell, not least those of the generations of men who toiled in hostile conditions to build the country's economy. In Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales, Dr David Johnson …
Few animals and plants in the Dales are associated especially with quarries but the high ledges provide some of the nesting sites for cliff-nesting birds like Jackdaws, Ravens and Peregrines. …
Dr David Johnson is a geographer and landscape archaeologist, based in the Yorkshire Dales, who specialises in vernacular uses of upland landscapes and has lectured and written on various aspects. Among his publications are Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales, Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines, and An Improving Prospect?
The Yorkshire Dales was designated a National Park back in the 1950s, largely due to its fascinating geological history. The Dales as they are today were primarily formed by glaciation and the natural weathering. ...
Malham is a small village in the Pennines. It is located towards the southern base of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Malham is an example of a tourist honeypot. The Malham area of The Yorkshire Dales National Park is an …
The quarries have important stories to tell, not least those of the generations of men who toiled in hostile conditions to build the country s economy. In Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales, Dr David Johnson provides a detailed account of lime s myriad uses, and the historical and technological forces that led to each.
At present two distinct types of rock are quarried in the Yorkshire Dales: Carboniferous limestone and the older, more complexly folded siltstones and sandstones within the Ordovician and …
Humans have created artificial exposures through quarrying and extensive use of limestone and other rock in drystone walls. The nature of limestone is such that it allows water to percolate …
Johnson, D. 2002 Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales (Stroud: Tempus) Stanier, P. 1995 Quarries of England and Wales: A Historic Photographic Record (Twelveheads Press) Stanier, P. 2000 Stone Quarry Landscapes: The Archaeology of Quarrying in England (Stroud: Tempus) Stanier, P. 2009 Quarries and Quarrying (Osprey Publishing)
"Almost every parish has abandoned quarries that exploited limestone, sandstone, flag stone, millstone grit, chert - or what quarrymen used to call granite and slate." The Factory Act of 1878 defined a quarry as "any place not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other materials.
