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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 SW 41 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Ashour Quarry |
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Summary
Ragstone quarry at Ashour, opened before 1831
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5445 4415 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54SW |
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| Parish: | LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Ragstone quarry for building stone opened shortly before 1831. (1) Several buildings were set within the quarry. A pair of buildings in the SW corner are noted in 1885 with two more, perhaps shed, at the N end. By 1937 only one building, one the site of the N pair, remined. A small shed was on site in 1994. (2)
Additional info(3)
<1> P. A. L. Vine, 1989, Kent and East Sussex Waterways, Vine, PAL 1989 `Kent & E Sussex Waterways' (Monograph). SKE6959.
<2> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.
<3> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: P. A. L. Vine. 1989. Kent and East Sussex Waterways. Vine, PAL 1989 `Kent & E Sussex Waterways'. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Cluttons. 1994. Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan. |
