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Llanymynech Limeworks
A Heritage Area and Local Nature Reserve
Llanymynech Limeworks
A Heritage Area and Local Nature Reserve
Category Tramways
The surveys carried out over the years have been logged and written up by the volunteers. These articles will allow a wider audience to read what has been found on the site
Tramway Survey – Area 5
By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young The tramway track continues almost diagonally for 184ft across field 370 (The Gables), from the silver birch tree in field 380 to a point, the other side of the fence adjacent to the brick-built…
Tramway Survey – Area 4
By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young Field 380 – Rock Cottage In 2000 a digger was observed lifting an inverted “T” rail from the area, so with permission to survey the area from the owner, we hoped to reveal some…
Tales from the Workers
Cecil Corfield Interview at Home Listen to Cecil Corfield as he recalls his time working at the Llanymynech Limeworks. The interview was carried out by Kerry Knapper, then Head teacher at Llanymynech Primary School, in 1979. A transcript of the…
Tramway Survey – Area 3
By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young This is on British Waterways land (Now Canal And River Trust); dredged material was deposited here from the Middleton dock between the dock and tramway. The tally house by the dock and its tramway…
Tramway Survey – Area 2
By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young A large area from the stable block to the eastern extremity where the Cambrian Railway enters the site. This area contains the main East / West Cambrian railway through the site, a loop linking…
Tramway Survey – Area 1
By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young This is a large area with four tramways of 2ft gauge and a main line at the top of the site. There are two tramways on embankments, one for the Savin kilns, one for…
Tramway Survey – Llanymynech Limeworks
Tramway Survey – Introduction By Tony Beardsell and Martyn Young Some years ago (1993) when doing a sugar beet aerial survey in Shropshire, we took a look down on the chimney and kiln at Llanymynech and faint tramway tracks could…