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| HER Number: | MDV123843 |
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| Name: | Wallshill Quarry, Babbacombe Road, Torquay |
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Summary
One of a number of quarries c.1800, exploiting the most northerly outcrop of Devonian limestone in Torbay. Walshill Quarry in 1861 and in 1904; Babbacombe Quarry by 1933
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 932 650 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX96NW |
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| Admin Area | Torbay |
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| Civil Parish | Torbay |
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| District | Torbay |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | ST.MARYCHURCH |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- QUARRY (XVIII to XX - 1800 AD to 1960 AD (Post))
Full description
Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.
Imported from Torbay HER
Ordnance Survey, 1890, Ordnance Survey: St Marychurch 1890 (Cartographic). SDV362045.
One of a number of quarries c.1800, exploiting the most northerly outcrop of Devonian limestone in Torbay. Recorded on the OS as Walshill Quarry in 1861and in 1904; but as Babbacombe Quarry by 1933 with a miniature rifle range in the worked out southern half; by the 1950s an Army training centre hut had also been put up. This is the largest and most southerly of the series of quarries on the northwestern side of the outcrop bounded in the main by Babbacombe Road, west of Walls Hills where the Devonian Slate, shales and grits begin.
Source: OS County Series 1:2500 1890 , 1904,1933 Editions
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV361984 | SMR record: Torbay HER record. |
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| SDV362045 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1890. Ordnance Survey: St Marychurch 1890. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV124016 | Parent of: Limekiln, Wallshill Quarry, Babbacombe Road, Torquay (Monument) |
| MDV48371 | Related to: QUARRY in the Parish of (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Feb 26 2019 6:46PM |
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