Site of Post Medieval Quarry in Spernall Park
Description of this historic site
The site of a quarry dating to the Post Medieval period. It was situated in Spernall Park.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Seams of gypsum are found within the keuper marls of the area. In 1662 a plaster pit in Spernall Park is recorded, and a ‘plasterer’ is recorded in the parish registers in 1706. The site of the pits is now overgrown but they were said to have been very deep with a proper mine shaft. They were considered unsafe in the 1940s when they were blown up and filled in, but part of the shaft is said to survive.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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