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Kemnay, Tom's Forest, Granite Quarry
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kemnay, Tom's Forest, Granite Quarry
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kemnay Quarry; Kemnay Quarries
Canmore ID 18643
Site Number NJ71NE 79
NGR NJ 763 168
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18643
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NE 79 763 168
Together with Rubislaw (NJ90NW 124), the most important granite quarries in Aberdeenshire, Paradise Hill (NJ71NW 29), Whitestones (NJ71SE 24), Tom's Forest and Leschangie (NJ71SW 15) employed 300 men in the 1860's.
J Butt 1967.
