old sandstone quarry

old sandstone quarry is a quarry in Long Preston, Craven District, England. old sandstone quarry is situated near the forest Langber Plantation, as well as near the nature reserve Wild Share with Mearbeck.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Long Preston railway station and Scaleber Force.

Long Preston railway station

Railway station

Photo: Chris Eccleston, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Long Preston is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between Leeds and Morecambe via Skipton. The station, situated 37+1⁄2 miles north-west of Leeds, serves the village of Long Preston in North Yorkshire. Long Preston railway station is situated 1½ miles southwest of old sandstone quarry.

Scaleber Force

Waterfall

Scaleber Force, is a 40-foot high waterfall on Stockdale Beck, later the Long Preston Beck, that feeds into the River Ribble between Settle and Long Preston in North Yorkshire, England. Scaleber Force is situated 1½ miles north of old sandstone quarry.

Hellifield railway station

Railway station

Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hellifield is a junction railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between Leeds and Morecambe via Skipton, as well as being the northern terminus of the Ribble Valley line. Hellifield railway station is situated 2 miles south of old sandstone quarry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Otterburn and Settle.

Otterburn

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Otterburn is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is at OS Grid Reference SD8857, near Airton, Calton and the A65. The village is 9 miles north west of Skipton and 1.9 miles east of Hellifield. Otterburn is situated 2½ miles southeast of old sandstone quarry.

Settle

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.

Settle is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town had a population of 2,421 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,564 at the 2011 census.

Kirkby Malham

Village

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Kirkby Malham is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Yorkshire Dales, 6 miles east of Settle. The population of the civil parish as taken in the 2011 Census was 202. Kirkby Malham is situated 3 miles east of old sandstone quarry.

old sandstone quarry

Type: Quarry
Categories: historic site and industry
Location: Long Preston, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.03782° or 54° 2′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.23458° or 2° 14′ 5″ west

Open location code

9C6V2QQ8+45

OpenStreetMap ID

way 736462447

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=quarry

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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Highlights: Langber Plantation and Wild Share with Mearbeck.

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