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2. Yeolands Quarry - Wikipedia

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   Yeolands Quarry is a disused stone quarry located on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located on the eastern side of Portland, where it lies east of the village Easton and south of The Grove village. The quarry is one of the largest on Portland, at 120 feet (37 m) deep, 300 feet (91 m) wide.

3. Perryfield Quarry - Wikipedia

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   The quarry is owned by Portland Stone Firms Ltd, along with Broadcroft and Coombefield Quarries. The firm is the largest landholder on the island. [1] King Barrow Quarry, located close to the area of New Ground, in the north-east corner area of Tophill, is also another Portland nature reserve. Broadcroft Quarry is also a part butterfly reserve. [2]

4. Broadcroft Quarry - Wikipedia

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   The quarry is owned by Portland Stone Firms Ltd, along with Perryfield and Coombefield Quarries. The firm is the largest landholder on the island. [1] The nature reserve is managed by Butterfly Conservation. King Barrow Quarry, located close to the area of New Ground, in the north-east corner area of Tophill, is also another Portland nature ...

5. Tout Quarry - Wikipedia

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   Tout Quarry, now known as Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve, is a sculpture park and nature reserve based within a disused quarry on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located within the north-west corner of Tophill. The sculpture park has existed since 1983, while the site also become a nature reserve around 2004.

6. Bowers Quarry - Wikipedia

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   The project aims to create a Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory on the western clifftops at Portland - at Bowers Quarry. The monument is to pay homage to the world's extinct species. [7] The lease for the site was successfully agreed with the Crown Estate, and the project given the go-ahead by Weymouth and Portland Borough Council.

7. Coombefield Quarry - Wikipedia

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   The large quarry has been worked over many years, and has two voids known as Coombefield North and Coombefield South. The quarry today incorporates the former Suckthumb Quarry, which is situated at the northwest part of the quarry, and is now filled in. The quarry is owned by Portland Stone Firms Ltd, along with Broadcroft and Perryfield Quarry ...

8. King Barrow Quarry - Wikipedia

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   King Barrow Quarry is a disused site of former 19th century stone quarries on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located in the north-east corner of Tophill . The quarry, now a Dorset Wildlife Trust nature reserve, covers 12.2 hectares. [ 1 ]

9. Portland stone - Wikipedia

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   Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation [1]) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. [1] The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds.