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500000 350 400000 450 Percentage of areas of land-use in each aggregate resource: North West England Region Superficial Sand and Gravel North West England Region Aggregate Mineral Resources Limestone - Carboniferous outside of selected environmental designations Scale 1:250 000 Accompanies BGS report OR/08/025 "Aggregate Resource Alternatives - Options for Future Igneous Rock Aggregate Minerals Supply in England", published 2008. Compiled by: J. Mankelow, T. Bide, K. Linley and S. Hannis. Project Leader: J. Mankelow. Digital cartography by C Simpson. Published 2008. Sandstone 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Kirkhouse (SG) Area of land-use in each aggregate resource: North West England Region Silvertop Superficial Sand and Gravel !( (Lst) !( Carlisle !( Low Gelt Farm Sandpit Limestone - Carboniferous (SG) !( Faugh No 1 Sandpit (SG) Igneous Rock Cardew Mires (SG) Brocklewath Highfield Aldoth !( (SG) Sandstone (SG) (SG) !( 550 550 !( !( 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 Overby No 2 Sandpit !( Square Kilometres (SG) !( New Cowper & Aikshaw Low Environmental Designations Designation + Urban Urban only Remaining outcrop (SG) Plains (SG) !( Maryport Harbour (SG) !( !(!( Moota (Lst) Bonnie Mount Cockermouth (SG) !( Workington South Pier Penrith (SG) !( !( Tendley Workington (Lst) Shap Eskett Beck (Lst) (Lst) !( Whitehaven Helbeck !( (Lst) !( Shapfell Limestone (Lst) !( Shap (Blue) Egremont (Ig) !( Shap (Pink) !( !( Hartley (Ig) (Lst) Peel Place (SG) !( 5 000 500000 00 Windermere Roan Edge (Sst) !( Kendal Holmescales (Sst) Ghyll Scaur !( (Ig) Sandside (Lst) !( !( !( Ulverston Goldmire (Lst) Holme Park !( (Lst) !( Stainton (Lst) Back Lane Barrow-in-furness (Lst) (!((!( !( !( Leapers Wood (Lst) Roose Sandpit Dunald Mill West (SG) (Lst) Morecambe !( Environmental Designations in the North West England SAND AND GRAVEL Lancaster South Walney Region (as at June 2007) Superficial Deposits (SG) Sand and Gravel *# CRUSHED ROCK Glasson Dock Sandstone (MSG) SOLWAY COAST 4 Igneous Rock NORTH PENNINES 4 50 Waddington Fell 50 (Sst) Limestone - Carboniferous !( Bankfield Active Quarry, Rail Depot, Wharf (Lst) !( ") *# Sand and Gravel - Natural aggregate end uses only (!( Thornton/cleveleys Bradleys Sandpit Leeming LAKE DISTRICT (SG)/(SAgg) (Sst) Foulridge !( ") *# Crushed Rock - Natural aggregate end uses only Clitheroe FOREST !( Colne OF Sand and Gravel / Crushed Rock - Barrowford ARNSIDE BOWLAND !( ") # Poulton-le-fylde * Natural aggregate end uses only Whinney Hill Carr HallNelson AND (Sst) SILVERDALE !( ") *# Sand and Gravel - Natural aggregates (possibly as a by-product) Brierfield and other commodities Blackpool !( !( ") *# Crushed Rock - Natural aggregates (possibly as a by-product) and other commodities Burnley Abbreviation descriptions Foreshore !( !( Preston CR Crushed Rock SAgg Secondary Aggregates (S) Lytham St. Anne's Church Ig Igneous Rock SG Sand and Gravel Freckleton/Warton Blackburn Accrington Lst Limestone SiS Silica Sand Scout Moor National Park MSG Marine Sand and Gravel Sst Sandstone Lydiate Lane Jamestone (Sst) (SG) !( (Sst) S Sand !( Fletcher Bank Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty Ribble Estuary (Sst) (SiS) Leyland Darwen Whitworth !( National nature conservation designation (SSSI) Urban area Mineral Planning Authority boundary !( (Sst) Brinscall !( (Sst) !( International nature conservation designation Main road ( Quarry with estimated annual sales (SAC/SPA) ( of 1 million tonnes or greater Chorley !( Motorway Southport Round O (Sst) Montcliffe Railway (Sst) Rochdale !(!( Associated Mineral Resource Information in Support of National, Mineral resources within selected environmental designations are not shown High Moor Regional and Local Planning Maps (see Aims and Limitations) Pilsworth Horwich South (Sst) Mineral resources covered by urban areas are shown as transparent Pilkington Bury !( (Sst) !( (S) Formby Bolton Radcliffe !( Skelmersdale Wigan Kearsley Oldham !( CUMBRIA 4 000 Morleys Hall Pendleton Buckton Vale 4 000 00 Crosby 2001 00 Aims and Limitations !( (SG) Rail Depot Ashton-Under-Lyne (Sst) (CR) ") The purpose of the maps in this series is to show the broad distribution of those Southworth Ashbury aggregate mineral resources that may be of current or potential economic interest ") *# (S)/(Sst) (CR) which lie outside of selected nationally- / internationally-recognised environmental Seaforth Docks (CR) St. Helens Manchester designations. Those mineral resources that lie within National Parks, Areas of Bredbury Junction !( Outstanding Natural Beauty, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Special Areas of Rail Depot Offerton Conservation and Special Protection Areas are not shown. The maps are intended to *#Bramley-Moore Dock (CR) Wallasey ") (SG) assist in the consideration and preparation of development plan policies with respect to (MSG) Prescot aggregates extraction. They bring together a wide range of information, much of which Huyton-with-Roby is scattered and not always available in a convenient form. Liverpool Bold Heath Warrington (SG) ") Stockport !( LANCASHIRE !( These maps have been produced by collation and interpretation of mineral resource Birkenhead Northenden Junction 2006 ABP Garston ") Rail Depot data held by the British Geological Survey. (CR)/(MSG) Great Sankey Widnes Warrington Arpley (CR) Rail Depot Information on environmental designations has been obtained from the appropriate ") (CR) statutory body (Natural England) who should be contacted for further information. *# Bebington High Legh The aggregate mineral resource data presented are based on the best available Runcorn Wilmslow/Alderley Edge Sycamore CHESHIRE information, but are not comprehensive and their quality is variable. The inferred *# (Sst) 2006 boundaries shown are, therefore, approximate. Mineral resources defined on the map Eastham Wharf (MSG) Garston Endon delineate areas within which potentially workable minerals may occur. These areas are Mere Farm (Sst) not of uniform potential and take no account of planning constraints that may limit their Rail Depot Knutsford (CR) (S) working. The economic potential of specific sites can only be proved by a detailed !( evaluation programme. Such an investigation is an essential precursor to submitting a Ellesmere Port Ashbank !( Northwich !( planning application for mineral working. Extensive areas are shown as having no Farm Dingle Bank Marksend aggregate mineral resource potential, but some isolated mineral workings may occur in (SG) (SiS) Macclesfield (Sst) these areas. Crown Farm !(!( Forest Hill !( The locations of those quarries active in 2005 and extracting aggregate either as a (SG) (SG) !( primary product or as a by-product of other mineral extraction are shown (including Fourways those that lie within the selected environmental designations). The locations of those !( (SG) !( wharves and rail depots active in 2005 and where known, are also shown. While the !( compilers have tried to ensure that the site details are as accurate as possible, any Chester Cherry Orchard map of active quarries is a snapshot in time. Moving the extraction location as reserves Sand Unit Middlewich !( become exhausted or a new extension starts production, and renaming of sites are (SG) Cobden Farm regular occurrences. Also sites may cease to be active at any time. (S) Congleton Eaton Hall (SiS) This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown Copyright and / or database right 2008. All rights reserved. 100037272. Crew")e Digital AONB, SSSI, SPA, SAC boundaries © Natural England 2008. Contact address: Nantwich Natural England, Northminster House, Northminster, Peterborough, PE1 1UA 350 Tel: 01733 455000, Fax: 01733 455103, Web page: www.naturalengland.org.uk 350 Crewe Basford Hall This publication has been produced by the British Geological Survey. Unless otherwise stated, British Rail Depot Geological Survey © NERC 2008. All rights reserved. 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