2021

NS9160 : View towards Former Quarry at Braehead

taken 3 years ago, near to Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland

View towards Former Quarry at Braehead
View towards Former Quarry at Braehead
For an activity that has such a dramatic and lasting effect on the physical landscape, quarrying always seems to get overlooked. There is no shortage of online information about the coal and shale mining industries that used to exist around here, or about the thousands of small railway lines that criss-crossed both town and country. But there is more information about a former brickworks nearby than the quarries that left impressions such as this. In fact the only direct reference to it being a sandstone quarry was an old railway route listing on a railway enthusiasts' website. I am still a beginner at this investigatory stuff though, so hopefully I will come across more things in due course!
Old maps show this as being the earliest of many quarries that were situated on this NorthEastern side of the track to Braehead, a nearby farm just South of the only railway line still running round here. It was active in the 1890s but by 1910 it is shown as an old quarry. It is first shown as containing water on a 1940s map, though curiously, both this, and a slightly later map, don't show the steep far edges of the pond as being as straight as they are today.

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]   © Copyright Ian Dodds and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Geographical Context: Quarrying, Mining Lakes, Wetland, Bog Derelict, Disused Primary Subject: Quarry
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Quarry [3] · Old Maps Show [2] · Old Railway [2] ·
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
+
+
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
TIP: Click the map for more Large scale mapping
Grid Square
NS9160, 20 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 25 April, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 9193 6042 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:49.4932N 3:43.5965W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 9191 6036
View Direction
North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
Clickable map
+
NW N NE
W Go E
SW S SE
Image Type (about): geograph 
This page has been viewed about 31 times
You are not logged in login | register