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    Quarry Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, at the south edge of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, and adjacent to the A61 road. It...
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    Moor used to be a stone quarry in the last century but has since become a predominantly commuter and retirement village. Green Moor is also the site of activity...
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    Ilkley Moor is part of Rombalds Moor, the moorland between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England. The moor, which rises to 402 m (1,319 ft) above...
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    Moor Mill Quarry, West is a 0.16-hectare (0.40-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in How Wood in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority...
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    2015 – Tarmac (CRH) The quarry lies adjacent to Swarth Moor SSSI, a bog moorland that was previously cut for fuel. Swarth Moor is noted for its butterfly...
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    was constructed from Plym Bridge to the quarries at Lee Moor, and the whole railway became known as the Lee Moor Tramway. The South Devon and Tavistock...
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    Farnham Mires, Hack Fall Wood, Hay-a-Park, Kirk Deighton Mar Field Fen, Quarry Moor, and Ripon Parks. Croft, Katie (2009). Brimham Rocks. Swindon, Wiltshire:...
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    protected plant, growing only in Yorkshire, on grassland sites such as Quarry Moor. Orobanche reticulata was described by taxonomist Karl Friedrich Wilhelm...
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    of Lowick High Common and of Kirkby Moor is 333 m above sea level. The major man-made features are a slate quarry operated by Burlington Slate Ltd and...
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    Combe Moor, also known as Coombes Moor, is a linear hamlet in the civil parish of Byton in Herefordshire, England, to the south-east of the Welsh town...
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    Engineers: 27 July 1949. RAF Leeming: 14 September 2015. Marquess of Ripon Quarry Moor nature reserve Ripon Community Hospital Sanctuary Way Walk Ripon Spa...
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    The Mount William stone axe quarry (traditionally known as Wil-im-ee moor-ing) is an Aboriginal Australian archaeological site in Central Victoria, Australia...
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    William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC (born 28 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament...
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    taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building (such material is known as moorstone). Granite quarrying only became reasonably...
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    Cow Myers, Farnham Mires, Hack Fall Wood, Hay-a-Park, Mar Field Fen, Quarry Moor, and Ripon Parks. Unless otherwise indicated, photographs of fauna on...
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    woodland and former quarry workings and is bordered by Airedale to the east, the Worth Valley to the north and Catstones Moor and the village of Cullingworth...
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    Wardlow Cop). Hope Quarry is a large limestone quarry that covers the north-east side of the moor between Castleton and Bradwell. The quarry is now operated...
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    Widecombe in the Moor (/ˌwɪdɪkəm ... ˈmʊər/) is a village and large civil parish in Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Its church is known as the...
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    Building in Whitehall, London De Lank quarry is located on the edge of the igneous rocks that form the majority of Bodmin moor, with the change to slate formations...
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    the Andle Stone. The moor's sandstone has been quarried for many years, and has left several old dormant quarries around the moor. In 2009 an attempt to...
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    Farnham Mires, Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit, Kirk Deighton Mar Field Fen, Quarry Moor, and Ripon Parks. The meaning of "scrubbing up" is unclear. It could...
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    Aggregates quarry at Eldon Hill closed in 1999 and was landscaped. Proposals from Stancliffe Stone Ltd to reopen dormant gritstone quarries at Stanton Moor in...
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    local tin miners and quarry workers. It is kept in a semiferal state on Dartmoor. Despite this, numbers living on the open moor have declined from an...
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    Brimham Rocks, Cow Myers, Farnham Mires, Hack Fall Wood, Hay-a-Park, Quarry Moor, and Ripon Parks. Unless otherwise stated, the photographs of flora in...
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    "NE Hense Moor" (PDF). "NE Hense Moor Meadows" (PDF). "NE High Down Quarry" (PDF). "NE Hobby To Peppercombe" (PDF). "NE Hollow Moor & Odham Moor" (PDF)....
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    Farnham Mires, Hack Fall Wood, Hay-a-Park, Kirk Deighton Mar Field Fen, Quarry Moor, and Ripon Parks. "Bird's eye primose, Primula farinosa". wildflowerfinder...
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    Clough and Pingot are former coal and sandstone quarries on Crompton Moor. During the 1970s, quarrying was halted, the land was reclaimed, and thousands...
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  • naturalengland.org.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2018. "Quarry Moor". riponcity.gov.uk. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2018. "Quarry Moor LNR". designatedsites.naturalengland...
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    housing. Quarry Vale Road and Quarry Vale Grove sit behind what was once a quarry, along the ancient border of the Shire Brook. The hill above Quarry Vale...
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    the chapel. Detailed examinations have revealed that stone from the Quarry Moor workings, just south of Ripon, was used in the renovations. After the...
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