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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rowtor Rocks and Doll Tor.
Rowtor Rocks
Stone
Photo: Warofdreams, CC BY 2.5.
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″ northLongitude
-1.6386° or 1° 38′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C5W5956+MHOpenStreetMap ID
way 179857264OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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