Geograph - photograph every grid square

The working faces at their current degree of penetration into the hillside seen from the end of the viewing platform.

This gridsquare is somewhat dominated by the Hope Limestone Quarry. The road here which loops around its perimeter had recently been relaid and re-routed at the date of posting.

This is a seriously big hole in the ground, from which around 2 million tonnes of limestone are extracted annually to produce around 10% of the UK supply of cement. The cement works was commissioned in 1929 and the existing extraction... (more)

A large dumper taking spoil to the conveyor head at Hope Quarry.

The mature trees to the right are in an old walled enclosure.

Route for vehicles from the Hope Quarry. The road allows lorries to access Little Hucklow and then on to the A623 and A625, avoiding the villages of Hope and Bradwell.

Diverted road (to the left) around Hope Quarry.

Dirtlow Rake is a series of open and underground workings following a series of mineral veins. Rake is another meaning for vein, although the veins are long and sometimes rather thick. This rake runs along a fault line, horizontal... (more)

Going up onto Bradwell Moor.

In this instance the warning is more than justified. Vegetation obscures a number of depressions with undisclosed depth! These are the remains of the New Venture lead mine.