Site of Post Medieval Lime Works at Brown's Spinney
Description of this historic site
The site of a lime works where lime was made during the Post Medieval period and possibly later. It is marked on a map of 1725. Some of the quarry holes from which the lime was extracted are visible as earthworks. The site is located 500m north west of Little Lawford.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Lime works are shown in about this location.
2 The only sign of lime working is the extensive pocking of the ground and deeper scarring where lime was extracted. The quarry site is now partly flooded and is partly being used as a landfill site.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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