Haysom Purbeck Stone Ltd - St Aldhelm's Quarry - Nr St Aldhelm's Head, Dorset, UK - Active Quarries on Waymarking.com

One of the few active quarries in the area Haysom's Quarry uses stone brought in for cutting and dressing as well as quarrying on site. Portland Stone can be seen at the surface of this quarry whilst further north Lower Purbeck Stone is found. This quarry uses a hand-operated derrick.

There is further information on the official website: visit link

'Established at St. Aldhelm's Quarry in 1934, W J Haysom & Son has a reputation and expertise resulting from generations of family involvement in quarrying and stone processing in Purbeck.

There has been a long association with, not only church and cathedral restoration, but all kinds of general masonry and specialised dimension work.

St. Aldhelm's Quarry is a source of Purbeck-Portland Stone yielding the attractive marine fossil Spangle bed and the relatively plain Pond Freestone, so prized for carving and monumental work.'

Type of Stone/Ore mined: Purbeck and Portland Stone Associated Web Site: Not listed

Visit Instructions:
Please give the date and short account of your visit to the quarry. Additional photos are welcomed, but not required.

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Date Logged Log User Rating   08/09/2015 Lone Hunter visited it