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The works process the limestone extracted from the adjacent quarry.
©Richard Whitham
Dist:0.4km<br/>Houses for quarry workers and their families, near to Dowlow and Hindlow.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.4km<br/>These houses were built for quarrymen and there is a quarry shown in the background. The building to the front right is a former primary school that is now used as a community club.
©Roger Temple
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©Chris Wimbush
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.6km<br/>Dowlow and Hindlow Quarries are part of a chain extending over 6 kilometres north towards Buxton.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.7km<br/>These semi-derelict barns form a buffer between the main farm buildings and the busy A515 from Buxton to Ashbourne.
©Roger Temple
Dist:0.8km<br/>The entrance road to the quarry crosses the railway via this bridge.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.8km<br/>Part of the limestone and quicklime handling plant at Hindlow. Stone arrives by train from Tunstead, is processed into quicklime in the Maerz kilns, and then ground into powder before being bagged or shipped out (by road) in bulk tankers.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.8km<br/>Limestone crushing, screening and washing plant.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.8km<br/>From the footpath from Sterndale Moor.
©Dave Dunford
Dist:0.8km<br/>This limestone factory relies on the quarries next door for its raw material.
©Roger Temple
Dist:0.9km<br/>A single track road runs north from here to Chelmorton. The cars are parked on the Midshires Way track, while their owners were taking part in a drystone walling course.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.9km<br/>Farmland overlooking Chelmorton, taken from the public footpath near to Nether Low.
©Jonathan Clitheroe
Dist:0.9km<br/>Limestone is graded, crushed and washed for various purposes. The scale of these quarries is hard to take in. Dowlow and Hindlow cover approximately 3 square kilometres.
©Peter Barr

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