Gritstone
Gritstone The Salt Cellar, a gritstone tor on Derwent Edge in the Peak District Gritstone is a sedimentary rock composed of coarse ... It is a coarser version of sandstone. Gritstone is laid down in water and frequently ... It is quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill ...
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Cheshire Gritstone Trail
Cheshire Gritstone Trail The Cheshire Gritstone Trail is a long-distance footpath running ... best for obtaining a close look at gritstone scenery. The final stage of 9.3 ...
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Mellor, Greater Manchester
... identical. Geology Mellor is located on a gritstone area in an area of the Peak ... have been located in Mellor, over the gritstone. Boulder clay, left from the Ice Age ... other shallow-depth warm-water creatures. The gritstone comes from deposits laid down about 300 ... coal deposits lie on top of the gritstone, although most of these have long since ...
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Rock climbing in the Peak District
... aid climbing) and the rock is either gritstone or limestone. Climbing has been practised all ... his great skill, physical strength and daring. Gritstone There is a long-standing practice of ... in the traditional climbing style. The major gritstone crags include: Stanage Edge a 5km edge ...
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Landkey
... east of Barnstaple produces a high PSV gritstone for, which there is an increasingly important ... eastern end of the site. Quarrying for gritstone commenced at Venn in the 1930’s, which ...
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Derwent Edge
... edges being the last remains of the gritstone which originally covered all of the Peak ... Edge has several examples of unusually shaped gritstone tors which have been formed by the ...
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Stodhart Tunnel
... line of the tramway there is a gritstone ridge and in 1795 Benjamin Outram and ... with elliptical side walls, constructed of dressed gritstone. The portals at both ends were slightly ...
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Froggatt Edge
Froggatt Edge Froggatt Edge is a gritstone escarpment in the Peak District national park ... vertical 17 m (50 ft) slab of gritstone. It was first climbed in 1977 by ...
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Baslow
... of the village was once quarried for gritstone and features the Eagle Rock, an isolated 6 metre high block of gritstone. Tradition has it that the local men ...
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Riber castle
... shell into apartments. It is built of gritstone from a local quarry (Derbyshire is well ...
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