Quarrying in the Peak District
- Created by: G Redford
- Created on: 12-04-13 19:07
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- Peak District (limestone landscape)
- Farming
- intensive daily farming (White peak)
- high rainfall 1,000-1,500 mm per annum
- Sheep farming
- Water supply
- Reserviors
- Tourism
- Thor's cave (Manifold valley, Staffordshire)
- Honey pot sites
- Settle
- Skipton
- Grassington
- White scar (Ingleton, Yorkshire dales)
- Quarrying
- Castleton has 2 quarries
- Hope cement works
- 1.5 million tonnes in 1951quarried
- 8.2 million in 1991 quarried
- 4.7million tonnes in 2000
- lime is quarried as fertilisers
- Millstone grit quarried in Yorkshire Dales
- Castleton has 2 quarries
- Farming
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