Monument record MDR7577 - Hilt's Quarry, School Lane, Crich

Hilt's Quarry - limestone was supplied to the Bullbridge lime kilns via the Butterley Gang Road from 1800 until 1933. (1) The Butterley Company's Hilts quarry opened in 1844/5 and closed in 1933 and from the 1970s became a landfill site. (2) In the early part of the Industrialisation period, quarrying was heavily based on the requirement for lime, which represented a continuation, albeit on a much grander scale, of 'pre-industrial activity. As such, Crich had locational advantages over the main White Peak outcrop to the north west, in being closer to industrial markets. The involvement of the Butterley Company from 1791, initially at Warner Quarry [SDR 18422] was followed by the building of the Butterley Gangroad in 1793 to carry stone down to kilns (of which very little remains) on the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge and the later opening of Hilts Quarry a little to the west (also rail-linked to the same kilns). (3)