1972
NG0685 : Lingreabhagh from the shore
taken 52 years ago, near to Lingarabay, Isle of Lewis And Harris, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland
Lingreabhagh from the shore
Lingreabhagh (Lingerbay) is a small township at the foot of the mountain Roineabhal (460m), which was the subject of a proposal to become a superquarry, extracting the unusual rock, anorthosite, of which it is made. The crushed rock is used for road surfacing. Old quarries near the township were the main UK source of alkali feldspar during World War 2.
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