Disused Quarry
Disused Quarry is a quarry in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak District, England. Disused Quarry is situated nearby to the pitch eq, as well as near the forest Lamb Quarry Woodland.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chinley railway station and South Head.
Chinley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.
Chinley railway station serves the rural village of Chinley in Derbyshire, England. The station is 17+1⁄2 miles south east of Manchester Piccadilly, on the Hope Valley Line from Sheffield to Manchester, and is measured 169 miles 40 chains from St Pancras via Toton. Chinley railway station is situated 1 mile southwest of Disused Quarry.
South Head
Peak
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Head is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District. The summit is 494 metres above sea level. It lies at the south of the head of the River Sett.
Mount Famine
Peak
Photo: Douglal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Famine is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. The summit is 473 metres above sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapel Milton and Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Chapel Milton
Hamlet
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapel Milton is a hamlet on the outskirts of Chapel-en-le-Frith on the road leading from there to Chinley and to Glossop. Within the parish of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, it takes its name from the site of a medieval corn mill, Maynstonfield Mill, or “Mainstonefield alias Chinley”.
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Town
Photo: Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chapel-en-le-Frith is a town and civil parish, in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It has been dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", in reference to the Peak District, historically the highland areas between the Saxon lands and the Viking lands. Chapel-en-le-Frith is situated 2 miles south of Disused Quarry.
Buxworth
Village
Photo: WhaleyTim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buxworth is a village in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. The area, which was once an important centre for the limestone industry, became the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal. Buxworth is situated 2 miles southwest of Disused Quarry.
Disused Quarry
- Type: Quarry
- Category: industry
- Location: Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.34926° or 53° 20′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.92362° or 1° 55′ 25″ westOpen location code
9C5W83XG+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 158082482OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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