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    The Minera Limeworks were extensive lime quarries and kilns at Minera in Wrexham, Wales. It was located at grid reference SJ253520, near the villages...
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    mines expanded under the guidance of engineer John Taylor and the Minera Limeworks came into operation, while a branch of the North Wales Mineral Railway...
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    quarried from Llantysilio Mountain, Ruabon Mountain and Minera Mountain near Wrexham. The Minera Limeworks were once the largest lime workings in North Wales...
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    branches were: Wrexham and Minera Branch, which supported the steelworks at nearby Brymbo Steel Mill and Minera Limeworks. The last of the lines closed...
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  • Brymbo where it served the Brymbo Steelworks, and the lead mines and limeworks at Minera. A further branch ran from Brymbo to Coed Talon, where it connected...
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    branch line, which connected with the end of the Wrexham and Minera Branch at Minera Limeworks. The mines also had their own steam locomotive, a Manning...
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    above sea level. To the north and north-east, the moors are bounded by Minera Limeworks and the Clywedog valley. In the east they slope down to the villages...
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  • now a footpath that links the Minera Lead Mines Country Park to Minera Limeworks. "Gwylfa Cottage, New Brighton, Minera". Coflein (The online catalogue...
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    an intact but abandoned Hoffmann kiln without a chimney present at Minera Limeworks; the site is abandoned but all entrances to the kiln have been grated-off...
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    dealt with the weighing of goods from several collieries,including the Minera limeworks, Broughton Hall iron works, Brymbo furnaces, and other goods on the...
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    branch being the Wrexham and Minera Branch, which supported the steelworks at nearby Brymbo Steel Mill and the Minera Limeworks. In 1895, the Wrexham and...
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    in the north-east Wales from its entrance in the south face of the Minera Limeworks quarry. It was originally discovered and explored in 1964 by the Wrexham...
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  • passages close to Ogof Dydd Byraf and Ogof Llyn Du whose entrances are in Minera Limeworks. These are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and are being targeted...
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    of the line by Berwig Quarry and Minera Limeworks continued until closure of the line in 1970, after the Limeworks was reduced to a base for road aggregates...
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  • Works, West Sussex, England Grove Lime Kiln, Isle of Portland, England Minera Limeworks, Wrexham, Wales Solva limekilns, Pembrokeshire, Wales There are or...
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    and coal mines provided employment, and the village grew. The nearby Minera Limeworks was the largest employer in the area until it closed in the 1970s....
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    excavated wooden waggonway[citation needed], that led from a site near Minera Limeworks to a shelf above the works, presumably for tipping of lime, needed...
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  • 1963. However, limestone powder traffic continued to originate at Ruby Limeworks and goods trains also served the Synthite chemical works (a factory producing...
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