Old Gault Pits
Old Gault Pits is a quarry in Mepal, East Cambridgeshire, England. Old Gault Pits is situated nearby to Mepal and Witcham Church of England Primary School, as well as near the lake Fenced Acre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Elean power station.
Elean power station
Power station
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elean power station is a straw-fired biomass power station in Cambridgeshire, England. At a capacity of 38 MW, it was the largest straw-fired power plant in the world at the time of its completion. Elean power station is situated 1 mile southeast of Old Gault Pits.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mepal and Sutton-in-the-Isle.
Mepal
Village
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mepal is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Mepal is part of the East Cambridgeshire district, and is located just north of the A142 road between Ely and Chatteris.
Sutton-in-the-Isle
Village
Sutton or Sutton-in-the-Isle is a village and civil parish in the county of Cambridgeshire in England, near the city of Ely. The "in-the-Isle" suffix refers to the fact that the village is part of the Isle of Ely, once an island in the Fens and also an administrative county until 1965.
Witcham
Village
Witcham is a small village near Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. The name of the village derives from "Wycham", meaning "place of the wych elms", after the trees that used to grow there in significant numbers. Witcham is situated 2 miles east of Old Gault Pits.
Old Gault Pits
- Type: Quarry
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: Mepal, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.40433° or 52° 24′ 16″ northLongitude
0.1091° or 0° 6′ 33″ eastOpen location code
9F42C435+PJOpenStreetMap ID
way 162862022OpenStreetMap feature
historic=clay pitsOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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Highlights include Mepal and Witcham Church of England Primary School and Fenced Acre.
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