Former Chalk Quarry
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Italian Gardens
Hidden away below Helen Gardens at Holywell are the Italian Gardens. These unusual and secluded lawned gardens sit in a wooded amphitheatre carved out of the cliff face just yards from Holywell beach. The hollow in the chalk cliff face is due to the garden’s former use as a chalk quarry. This little secret spot…
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Abandoned Chalk Quarry
Set amongst a 16,500 acre privately owned estate in the heart of a National Park is this huge abandoned chalk quarry. With scrubland, overgrown areas, trees, dirt tracks and abandoned machinery, this is an interesting location for filming.
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Industrial Heritage Museum
Nestled in the rural heartland of a National Park is this open-air industrial heritage museum – formerly chalk pits with quarries, kilns and associated buildings. The museum focusses on transport, industry, communications, craft and nature through a variety of exhibits and features including industrial narrow-gauge and standard-gauge railways, trains, a village garage and cycle shop,…
