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The extensive Foresthead Quarry was used for both limestone and shale extraction. These parallel rows of brick piers, many now toppled, are thought to be the remains of a possible conveyor system for removing material out of the quarry. They would have connected to the system of parallel tramways leading north-east. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1021017&resourceID=5
©Andrew Curtis
View looking across the disused quarry at Forest Head. In the background is Tindale Fell (left), Brown Fell (right), and Cold Fell (centre).
©Peter McDermott
The disused quarry at Forest Head.
©Peter McDermott
View north-east to Tortie Hill.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.1km<br/>A large abandoned limestone quarry south of Hallbankgate. Brown Fell [[NY5856]] lies beyond.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.1km<br/>Disused quarry at Forest Head.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.1km<br/>The flatter areas above the deeper parts of the quarry were mined for shale which forms layers between thin bedded limestone ('tumbler beds') above the 'Main Posts' of the Great Limestone [[2754757]]
©Andrew Curtis
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.1km<br/>The quarry was dug initially for limestone in the late C18th, which was used in the nearby lime kilns where local coal was also available as fuel. It was later used to extract shale until the latter half of the C20th http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1021017&resourceID=5 The anticline in the Great Limestone is a notable geological feature and can be seen at the end of the quarry [[2754757]]
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the view on top of the four limekilns seen at [[13998]]. The pits mark where limestone and coal were added to the furnace down below.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>These are some of the best preserved kilns I've seen. The whole of this area is full of industrial archaeology.
©Malcolm Jones
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking into the base of one of the lime kilns seen at [[13998]].
©Oliver Dixon
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©Clive Nicholson
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the largest chasm that remains in the area to the southeast of the hamlet. The site is now grazed by sheep.
©Andrew Smith

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