| Quarries have long been part of the North Yorkshire landscape. They provided the building materials for houses, farms, roads, castles and cathedrals.
Nosterfield Quarry is here because sand and gravel are here.
The minerals were laid down by the receding Ice Age some 15,000 years ago.
After the Ice Age, water and marsh covered a large part of the landscape. Neolithic people hunted and fished, made stone tools and grew simple crops to eat.
Down the centuries, the landscape has evolved. Farming, forestry and quarrying have formed the landscape we see today.
On farmland approximately half a mile from Nosterfield Quarry, separated from our site by the B6267 road and an area of fields, are the Thornborough Henges.
The Thornborough Henges do not look like Stonehenge – the remains are earthwork circles. The most easily accessible and visible of them can be viewed from the public road between Thornborough and West Tanfield.
The Thornborough Henges are a protected Ancient Monument. Tarmac has no plan to quarry within the land immediately surrounding the Thornborough Henges.
Central Thornborough Henge viewed from the road
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