Quarry, Rock Spinney, 700m N of Bubbenhall
The site of a quarry and a house dating back to at least the Imperial period. They are marked on a tithe map of 1841. The quarry is visible as an earthwork. The site is located at Rock Spinney, 1km north of Bubbenhall.
1 A field centered on the above NGR on the 1841 tithe map was labelled “Quarry Close and buildings incl. the Rock Cottage Yard Garden etc”.
2 Although no further documentary reference to the site was found, an elderly villager in Baginton can remember living in the cottage before WWI.
3 The cottage is now derelict, with only the chimney stack still standing (though the remains of the walls are just visible at ground level) and a pile of bricks heaped up at the other end of the building. The area, now called Rock Spinney, has classic signs of open-cast quarrying – now being covered with scoops of varying size and depth.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Geological mapping of the area shows the underlying rock to be mudstone, rather than the more common sandstone for the area. The medieval Baginton Quarry on the site of the nursery near the old mill ,as well as a possible quarry site by the icehouse, are also on areas of the mudstone. Mudstone is similar to sandstone and has a much finer grain, and would presumably be a better building stone than the local sandstone. This may explain why the quarry is located where it is.
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