The Quarries at Stags Fell
Stags Fell Quarries are the most extensive areas of stone working in the Dales, and are clearly visible looking north across the dale from Hawes as an unbroken line of spoil heaps skirting the edge of Stags Fell. The Yorkshire …
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The Yorkshire Dales Flashcards
Quarrying brings in money to the local area like the Yorkshire Dales. Quarrying provides employment for drivers and explosion experts. What are the negatives of quarrying? Noises like sirens and blasting, eyesore as it spoils the natural landscape. The dust from blasts can become airborne affecting wildlife and people with asthma.
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Quarries
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. The Peregrine is a large falcon renowned …
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Dry Rigg and Horton in Ribblesdale | People and the DALES
This walk gives you a 's eye view of a working quarry, joins the Ribble Way long distance footpath and visits one of the oldest churches in the Dales. From Helwith Bridge Quarry car park turn left on to the main road heading towards Austwick. The …
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Case Study of a Quarry
Dry Rigg is a grit stone quarry located in Helwith Bridge, approximately 5 miles north of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Gritstone is a sedimentary stone with exceptional wearing and skid-resistant properties.
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The Yorkshire Dales National Park has great natural beauty, fashioned from its underlying rocks. Equally important, it hosts a living community, which quarrying has been part of for centuries. While quarrying continues to be an important part of the local economy, calls are heard from pressure groups for it to cease: seldom
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New book looks at the history of quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales
It was an industry crucial to the development of Yorkshire as a hub of the industrial revolution and in their hewing and shaping sandstone these men were at the centre of the growth the West Riding cities, towns and villages including at that time, Skipton, and the construction of the huge stone textile mills and factories which dominated the Pennine valleys.
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Quarries
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. The Peregrine is a large falcon renowned for being one of the fastest flying birds that has reliably been recorded, reaching speeds of 350 kph (217 mph).
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Limestone: Yorkshire Dales
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 of quarrying in YD with reference to named examples. • identified conflicts and solutions between quarrying and ...
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Farmstead and Landscape Statement Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is a large-scale, upland landscape of high moorland, dissected by often deep dales, which forms part of the Pennine uplands running up the centre of Northern England. It is separated from the North Pennines by the Stainmore Trough faults and from the more industrialised South Pennines by the Craven Faults. Just
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Quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales
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. aggregates in road building and the construction industry, etc. Quarrying on this scale inevitably leads to irreversible environmental damage, including the ...
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Threshfield Quarry
The spectacular Threshfield Quarry is a disused limestone quarry at Threshfield near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Work at the quarry ceased in 2000 and the owners, Tarmac, undertook a programme of site clearance and restoration ground works to prepare the site for long term access and development.
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New book looks at the history of quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales
THE story of how stone was won from the Pennine slopes over hundreds of years is a fascinating history which has been explored by geographer and landscape archaeologist David Johnson in his book "Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines, An Illustrated History."
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Upland limestone landscapes Case study
Quarrying close quarrying The removal of rocks from the land. in the Yorkshire Dales is an important industry close industry The type of work that people do.. Around 4.5 million tonnes of rock are ...
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Yorkshire Dales Flashcards
Quarrying cause lots of noise which locals hate. Lots of pollution ruins the fresh outdoors of the Yorkshire Dales. Destroys the scenery (visual pollution). Scars in the landscape from abandoned/old quarries.
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New book looks at the history of quarrying in the Yorkshire …
THE story of how stone was won from the Pennine slopes over hundreds of years is a fascinating history which has been explored by geographer and landscape archaeologist …
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The Yorkshire Moors and Fells
the limestone landscape was one of the prime reasons for designation of the Yorkshire Dales as a National Park. Three Peaks and Central Moors and Fells The Three Peaks and central moors and fells are underlain by rocks of the Yoredale Series, a cyclic sequence of limestones, shales and sandstones lying over 300m deep above the Great Scar Limestone.
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Dry-Stone Walls and Field Barns
Field barns and dry-stone walls are intrinsic features of the typical 'Dales' landscape, and over 8600 kilometres of dry-stone wall, the largest man made feature, have been recorded in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, together …
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Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire Dales - quarrying. Intermediate/Higher Geography, Land Use and Conflict. How quarrying is a major land use in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Intermediate/Higher Geography
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Dry-Stone Walls and Field Barns
Field barns and dry-stone walls are intrinsic features of the typical 'Dales' landscape, and over 8600 kilometres of dry-stone wall, the largest man made feature, have been recorded in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, together with over 6000 stone field barns (1044 in Swaledale).
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Dry Rigg and Horton in Ribblesdale | People and …
This walk gives you a 's eye view of a working quarry, joins the Ribble Way long distance footpath and visits one of the oldest churches in the Dales. From Helwith Bridge Quarry car park turn left on to the main road heading towards …
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Dry Rigg Quarry
Dry Rigg Quarry is a working gritstone quarry in Upper Ribblesdale, producing a stone with exceptional wearing and skid-resistant properties. The quarry is in Helwith Bridge, approximately 5 miles north of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
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Yorkshire Dales
Quarrying is a major land use in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The benefits to the area are through employment, use of local businesses and high rates paid to the local council.
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Quarrying: a grey area
The quarrying industry in the Yorkshire Dales National Park dates back hundreds of years and has contributed significantly to form the distinctive landscape that can be seen today. For example, the dry-stone walls, field barns, farmsteads and villages, which are
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Dry Rigg Quarry
Dry Rigg Quarry is a working gritstone quarry in Upper Ribblesdale, producing a stone with exceptional wearing and skid-resistant properties. The quarry is in Helwith Bridge, …
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Quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales
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. …
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The effects of limestone quarrying on the River Ribble …
The first being that quarrying has not been fully studied in terms of influencing water quality, especially in the Yorkshire Dales; secondly, the project will be taking agricultural discharge into account by sampling parameters from a farmland beck for comparison to the quarry beck, and finally, the research will also hopefully provide a ...
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Case Study of a Quarry
Dry Rigg is a grit stone quarry located in Helwith Bridge, approximately 5 miles north of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Gritstone is a sedimentary stone with …
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Yorkshire Dales National Parks // Yorkshire …
The Yorkshire Dales has many moods; it can be wild and windswept or quietly tranquil with valleys full of hay meadows, dry stone walls and barns. Spectacular waterfalls and ancient woodlands contrast with the scattered remains of rural …
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Threshfield Quarry
The spectacular Threshfield Quarry is a disused limestone quarry at Threshfield near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Work at the quarry ceased in 2000 and the owners, …
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