Sentence examples for clay quarry from inspiring English sources

Our first designs were for different locations, including a tent-like structure for a hillside, then Smit discovered the china clay quarry at Bodelva.

Clever people like Tim Smit may succeed in turning a worked-out china clay quarry into an Eden Project, but while the income and the jobs are welcome, it won't give Cornwall its countryside back.

From Must Farm, the site of an old clay quarry, four miles east of Peterborough, you can see the squat medieval tower of the city's cathedral, the hulking mass of a brickworks, and a McCain fries factory.

Set on the sheltered shore of a flooded china clay quarry on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor, the accommodation even boasts its own little private range of hills for guests to climb, formed by spoil heaps that nature has spent over 70 years reclaiming.

An extraordinary archaeological excavation at Must farm, in a working brick clay quarry in the shadow of a chip factory on the outskirts of Peterborough, which has peeled back the millennia on the best bronze age site ever found in Britain, will end in 10 days time.

The former Kimmeridge Clay quarry Roswell Pits, 1 mi south-west of Ely Cathedral, is now a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

The area's tin mines closed by the late 20th century, but the port continued to export kaolin (china clay) quarried locally at Saint Austell.

The communities were surrounded by opencast mines, old clay quarries, spoil heaps, derelict coal workings, polluted waterways and all the other ecological wreckage of heavy industry.

Considerable sums have been spent on work and housing initiatives, the most eye-catching of which is the 130-million-pound ($186 million) Eden Project, near St. Austell, which draws more than 1 million visitors a year to old china clay quarries that now are home to domes filled with tropical plants.

Although employed primarily in copper and tin mines, bal maidens also worked in lead, zinc, manganese, iron, antimony, wolfram, and uranium mines, and in slate and china clay quarries.

"It was clay pits, quarries, coal mines, chimneys, sewer pipes, and kilns then.