About Ingleton quarry
Ingleton quarry is located just to the north of the village of Ingleton in North Yorkshire and is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It produces up to 350,000 tonnes a year of high quality gritstone aggregate for road surfacing for markets as far afield as Scotland and the south coast. Our principal customers are local authorities and most of the material is delivered by road via the B6255 to the A65. Some deliveries are made by rail to our asphalt depot at Leeds via our sidings at Ribblehead.
The rock is over 500 million years old and has been folded into a massive trough during mountain building activities as Scotland rammed into England when an ancient ocean separating the two closed. Later massive activity below ground forced a two metre thick sheet of volcanic material, known as a dyke, through the whole site. These geological features attract hundreds of visitors a year including universities and geological societies.
The quarry is dominated by the working void with small areas of fringing habitats of broadleaved woodland, planted trees and shrubs and a largely unvegetated quarry waste mound. On restoration, the void will become a large deep water body. The upper benches will be planted with silver birch, hawthorn and hazel with juniper, mountain ash, yew, blackthorn and gorse. Further stands of fringing woodland will be planted around the periphery of the quarry, which is set within an area of high nature conservation value.
