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Dist:0.2km<br/>Croxden Quarry is a vast hole in Staffordshire from which sand and gravel has been extracted, the workings all hidden behind this hill and the trees.
©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.4km<br/>Tractor at work doing in the early evening sunlight doiung something to the grass - rolling? aerating?
©Graham Hogg
Dist:0.5km<br/>near Freehay. In this area the contractors, Tarmac have got no further than removing the overburden. But within the next ten years this area will be dug out to a depth of 30 metres or more. In the foreground there is a curious metal "wall" with a curved top about a metre high. This may well be to keep some species of small furry animal out of the dangerous site.
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.6km<br/>After skirting the north side of Croxden Quarry, hidden from view to the left, and Counslow Plantation to the right, the road emerges from the trees with this view across towards Cheadle.
©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is one of the largest sand/gravel quarries in Europe and has been in operation since the 1930s. Parts of the quarry, as here, are being restored to woodland, lakes and grassland. See [[2859459]] for the bigger picture.
©Graham Hogg
Dist:0.7km<br/>Slowly the old workings are being levelled off and reclaimed. Not quite to original style, but nothing like what they've been. New saplings on the hillside, earth scrapers actively at work.
©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.7km<br/>Freehay. Until a few years ago Counslow Road ran more or less level from the photographer's position to the top of the far cliff (a point about one third of the picture width from the left hand edge). The current Multimap aerial image http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=402638&y=341787&scale=10000 shows the road intact and the new Counslow Road being constructed in a sweeping curve to the west and north. The new road opened in 2000 at a cost of £2 million. Since then Tarmac, the quarry operators have carved out this great trench.
©Roger W Haworth
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©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.7km<br/>From the east on the B5052. We failed to discover Cheadle's secret (unless it's the low cost of car parking!)
©Graham Hogg
Dist:0.8km<br/>This used to be the B road between Mobberley and Threapwood. Extensions to the massive Croxden quarry have obliterated the road and a new diversion has been built around the western edge of the quarry.
©Mike Bardill
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©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.9km<br/>Looks like a nice pub - right beside one of the most massive quarries in Britain.
©Chris Morgan
Dist:0.9km<br/>This is one of the largest sand/gravel quarries in Europe and has been in operation since the 1930s. It is the only quarry in my experience that provides a viewing platform, from where this panorama was photographed. Parts of the quarry, as here, are being restored to woodland, lakes and grassland.
©Graham Hogg
Dist:1.0km<br/>A lot of sand and gravel must have come out of here!
©Chris Morgan
Dist:1.0km north<br/>A doorway salvaged from a pub, typical of the material used by scrap dealer Les Oakes to construct a building to house his vast collection of memorabilia. The door leads nowhere.
©S Parish

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