Monument record MDR13822 - Farley Quarry, Farley Lane, Farley

Farley Quarry was included in a study into the potential to re-establish the roofing slate industry of the South Pennine region. Extensive heavily overgrown tips with few quarry faces up to 15m tall. Accounts from c. 1900 indicate that this was an important source of building stone in the development of the hydros in Victorian Matlock. No potential as a stone slate quarry on evidence of exposures. Lower half of the Chatsworth Grit. The higher beds are thick planar bedded. Below this are variously massive beds with crossbedding or in the west weathered out crossbedded sets. In the tips there are some large flags but they are too thick for roofing and have ripple bedded surfaces. (1) Farley Quarry is shown on Farley Moor on the 2nd edition 25" Ordnance Survey map of c. 1900. There is no evidence of a quarry on the 1st edition. (2) Modern maps do not label the quarry but show existing earthworks. (3)