Site Event/Activity record ECH5974 - Newbold Astbury Limeworks

Site visits to buildings and structures associated with the former lime works. Include photographs. The remaining structures at Astbury comprise a rare survival of the kilns, offices, warehouse and weighbridge of a small rural limeworks of the nineteenth century. Operations continued into the twentieth century even though the reserves of limestone were almost exhausted. In later years the stone was won by mining and extracted through an adit close to Baytree Farm.