Monument record MDR13586 - Bamford Moor Quarry (disused), New Road, Bamford

Bamford Moor Quarry was included in a report of a study into the potential to re-establish the roofing slate industry of the South Pennine region. It contains two sites, one a small and overgrown quarry, the other a medium to large scale quarry with faces up to 14m and about 4 hectares. They are on the Kinderscout Grit with some thin beds containing thin flaggy leaves possibly suitable for stone slates, but mostly massive and coarse including small pebbles. There are some irony sand balls. (1) A Quarry, with crane and a smaller Old Quarry are shown above Bole Hill on the 1st edition 25" Ordnance Survey map of c. 1880. (2) Modern maps show the larger quarry as disused and there is no evidence of the smaller quarry. (3)