The Craven Lime Works complex in Langcliffe/Stainforth in the Yorkshire dales has 3 inclined planes although these are not water powered. The main function of one appears to have been to lift coal to the top of a bank of three large draw kilns, the other two are concerned with movement of lime stone and waste in the quarry.
The site, now conserved and opened to the public by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, was surveyed by the Lancaster University Archaeological Unit in advance of consolidation works - a brief report on the complex appears in Trueman, MRG, The Langclife Quarry and Limeworks, Industrial Archaeology Review XIV.2 1992 .
Further work has since been carried out by David Johnson and is reported in his Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales, Tempus, 2002 .
Robert White
Senior Conservation Archaeologist
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
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Dear List,
I am currently researching a small group of limekilns in the Tavistock area in west Devon, which were served by inclined planes, powered by waterwheels. I am looking for other examples, in the UK I assume. Can anyone help? The examples in Devon seem to have been built circa 1816-18, but remained in use until circa 1870. They may have a connection with the engineer John Taylor, and I wonder if there are any examples in the Grassington area for example? Are there any inclines associated with blast furnaces?
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