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Blackwoodridge Quarries
Farmstead (18th Century) - (19th Century), Lime Kiln (18th Century) - (19th Century), Lime Works (18th Century) - (19th Century), Limestone Quarry(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Blackwoodridge Quarries
Classification Farmstead (18th Century) - (19th Century), Lime Kiln (18th Century) - (19th Century), Lime Works (18th Century) - (19th Century), Limestone Quarry(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Blackwoodridge Quarry; Waterbeck; Blackwoodridge Lime Works
Canmore ID 81435
Site Number NY27NW 69
NGR NY 2430 7580
NGR Description From NY 2430 7580 to NY 2440 7625
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81435
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Middlebie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY27NW 69 2430 7580 to 2440 7625
Blackwoodridge Quarries: 1 mile S of Waterbeck. Four outcrops of Carboniferous limestones were quarried here, namely, (a) a limestone just S of Blackwoodridge Farm (NY27NW 87), and (b) a group of three limestones at Blackwoodridge (ruin, 1/4 mi. S of farm).
T Robertson, J B Simpson, and J G C Anderson 1976.
Field Visit (30 November 1994)
NY27NW 69 2430 7580 to 2440 7625
Quarry (disused) [NAT] (at NY 2422 7625 and 2444 7614)
Works [NAT] (at NY 2441 7624)
Lime Kiln [NAT] (at NY 2454 7617)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1977.
Three old limestone quarries lie to the W of the Kirtle Water, 1.4km SSW of Waterbeck village (NY27NW 71). Two of them are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire, sheet lii, 1862), and the most northerly is noted as a Lime Works with two sets of kilns. The revetted kiln-bank at the E end of the quarry (NY 2454 7617) is the better-preserved of the two and still stands to a height of about 6m; its single bowl is served by two draw arches. The second kiln-bank at the W end of the quarry is largely obscured by the sheds and machinery of a store for ground limestone, although a bowl and one draw arch remain visible. This quarry and kiln were out of use when the 2nd edition of the map was published in 1900; the workings are now overgrown and their extent appears unaltered.
The southern quarry had been extended by the date of survey of the 2nd edition of the map, and a smaller working had been opened to the SW: this may be the reason why the farmstead shown roofed on the 1st edition map was abandoned, although its footings can still be seen. The U-shaped structure that has been set into a small slope between the two workings may be all that survives of a clamp kiln. These quarries had also fallen out of use by 1900, and are now water-filled.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH), 30 November 1994.
Blackwoodridge. Listed as quarries and kilns.
RCAHMS 1997.
