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Originally Posted by paul m
The track interested me because it had obviously been used by horse-drawn carts.
At the end of the track:
A quarry used for production of mill stones (these are the eponymous millstone grit measures of the Carboniferous - Pennsylvanian era). For centuries stones were carved out of these rocks both for flour mills and later for sharpening tools in the steel industry and then, one day, it just stopped ... leaving some stones almost ready for use but unwanted ... and nature returns! |
Such an appealing image isn't it!
Nature really has reclaimed this - it looks so natural even with the millstones (I am sure I could make use of one of those in my garden
).
I doubt we will be so lucky in future.