We will walk slowly through Bolehill Quarry, with plenty of stops for unhurried photography. The Quarry has been disused for about a century, the National Trust taking it over in 1954. For around 600 years, until the late 19th century, the quarry produced millstones for flour grinding and industry. This ceased due to cheaper imports from France. It was a very abrupt cessation, evidenced by the large number of millstones still lying around, often neatly stacked. The quarry had a brief resurgence from 1901 due to a demand for stone to build dams for the nearby Howden and Derwent reservoirs. When these projects ended the quarry shut down again, this time to be taken over by nature.
With the quarry remains, the left-behind millstones, silver birches growing on former quarry land and the gnarly old trees in nearby ancient woodland, Bolehill is a wonderful place for photographers.