Wilmcote Quarry Nature Reserve

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Wilmcote contains areas of good limestone, and a significant quarrying industry grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly after the opening of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in 1816 which was routed through Wilmcote because of its quarries.

Today the area has many small disused quarries, mostly filled in, and just-visible paths of tramways linking them to the canal.

This is a larger quarry which has not been filled in and which is now a nature reserve.
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Coordinates:   52°13'43"N   1°46'1"W
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