Birchover Quarry

Birchover Quarry is a quarry in Stanton, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Birchover Quarry is situated nearby to the stone Rowtor Rocks, as well as near the peak Stanton Moor.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rowtor Rocks and Doll Tor.

Rowtor Rocks

Stone

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Rowtor Rocks is a stone, which is situated 950 feet north of Birchover Quarry.

Doll Tor

Archaeological site

Photo: Elfmeterschiessen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Doll Tor is a stone circle just west of Stanton Moor, near the village of Birchover, Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. Doll Tor is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE. Doll Tor is situated 1,900 feet northwest of Birchover Quarry.

Andle Stone

Photo: Mark Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Andle Stone is a large gritstone boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. The stone block is 6m long, 4m high and lies within a low, circular, dry stone wall enclosure. Andle Stone is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Birchover Quarry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Birchover and Stanton in Peak.

Birchover

Village

Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.

Birchover is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England, five miles north-west of Matlock. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 362. Eagle Tor is a small hamlet on the north-western edge of the parish.

Stanton in Peak

Village

Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stanton in Peak is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, It is about seven miles north-west of Matlock, on the north side of Stanton Moor, from Birchover.

Winster

Village

Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Winster is a village in the English Derbyshire Dales about 5 miles from Matlock and 6 miles from Bakewell at an altitude of approximately 820 feet. It was formerly a centre for the lead mining industry.

Birchover Quarry

Type: Quarry
Category: industry
Location: Stanton, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.15916° or 53° 9′ 33″ north

Longitude

-1.6386° or 1° 38′ 19″ west

Open location code

9C5W5956+MH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 179857264

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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Highlights include Stanton Moor and T2 Bronze age cairn.

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