Quarry Road (and Terrace) is located at the lower part of Elphinstone Road (not to be confused with Quarry Hill or House), does anyone know the reason for its name?
If there really was a Quarry in the vicinity then what materials were quarried?
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Re: Quarry Road
Chatting with some local residents yesterday, it appears there were numerous quarries all over HSL in Victorian times, used to extract building materials, clay and sandstone for example.
Geoff's 1899 OS-based map (available in the 'Maps' section of 1066online), clearly shows Quarry Road and Terrace.
Earlier maps show Quarry Terrace but no road, infact there was a partial road under the Terrace but it did not connect with Mountpleasant road, a 'Quarry House' is also shown.
Residents of Quarry Terrace told me that there was a sandstone quarry at the rear of their terrace, now filled in with arches and that their, three-storey, terraced houses, were built in the later 1830's (they think), well before the late Victorian expansion.
So, local sandstone was taken directly from that quarry to supply materials for building street and garden walls.
I think this sandstone was classified as belonging to the Wealden/Hastings group and dated lower Cretaceous approx., 35 million years old.
Other localities would have been the site of brickworks, using local clay dug directly out of the ground, this would have been of similar age.
Geoff's 1899 OS-based map (available in the 'Maps' section of 1066online), clearly shows Quarry Road and Terrace.
Earlier maps show Quarry Terrace but no road, infact there was a partial road under the Terrace but it did not connect with Mountpleasant road, a 'Quarry House' is also shown.
Residents of Quarry Terrace told me that there was a sandstone quarry at the rear of their terrace, now filled in with arches and that their, three-storey, terraced houses, were built in the later 1830's (they think), well before the late Victorian expansion.
So, local sandstone was taken directly from that quarry to supply materials for building street and garden walls.
I think this sandstone was classified as belonging to the Wealden/Hastings group and dated lower Cretaceous approx., 35 million years old.
Other localities would have been the site of brickworks, using local clay dug directly out of the ground, this would have been of similar age.
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