Stormy weather almost cancelled a visit to North Yorkshire’s Horton quarry for 14 teenagers from Tobermory High School on the Isle of Mull.“Luckily, it...
Work on the proposed Padeswood Biodiversity Park has begun and will take two years to complete.The scheme, designed by students at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, aims to...
Owned by Heidelberg Materials Aggregates, Ridge Wood is long strip of woodland on steeply sloping ground running along the Yate/Chipping Sodbury boundary near the old...
Located in South Gloucestershire to the north of Chipping Sodbury and Yate, Chipping Sodbury quarry produces around 1,000,000 tonnes of limestone aggregate a year. It...
Chipping Sodbury Quarry has a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) that aims to target and enhance the habitats and species found on site and to work with local communities....
There can be no better example of the fund achieving its goals than at Glyncoch, near Pontypridd, a large post-war housing estate which sits above Craig-yr Hesg quarry.The...
A memorial made from stones from a quarry in Pontypridd was unveiled by First Minister Carwyn Jones in August 2014. The unveiling ceremony of a new memorial dedicated to...
A new secondary crusher has been installed at Craig yr Hesg quarry costing nearly £1 million. It took months of planning and three weeks to install the Metso GP300S cone...
MonthCharity/Receiving ptyDetailsFebruaryPenyfford Scout GroupSponsoring of table at Casino fun night.FebruaryHospice of the Good ShepherdSupporting 25th Anniversary Year...
Quarry staff at Whatley came to the rescue when Jack Russell Poppy went missing.The dog was being walked in fields adjacent to the Somerset site when it spotted a rabbit,...
Residents living near Lancashire’s Ingleton quarry could soon get a fast wireless internet connection, thanks to Heidelberg Materials funding.The company agreed to...
Batts Combe Quarry lies within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within the quarry land holding there are important, biodiverse habitats including...
Quarrying operations at Batts Combe, Cheddar probably began about 1890 with open lime kilns, although there was probably small scale quarrying and lime burning for many years...
