Dear All,
This sculpture in Phoenix Park has been made with local Magnesian Limestone.
Love,
Mousie
M is for Magnesian Limestone
Thurnscoe sits on a ridge of “Magnesian Limestone” – more correctly known as Dolomite, these days – that runs from the Tyne area down through to Nottinghamshire.
There are no quarries in Thurnscoe’s immediate area any more but some of the older houses were built with local stone and, once upon a time, the cistercian Roche Abbey (Maltby, about ten miles to the south) used to own a lot of Bottom End and quarried the local stone.