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RIDGE QUARRY

Originally a small Bathstone quarry, Ridge Quarry in Wiltshire was used for ammo storage during the First World War, and later expanded and used for the same purpose in the Second World War.

It was an ideal location, given it’s existing tramway that linked with the nearby railway and therefore provided excellent means of transportation to and from the quarry. In addition the ample storage space in Ridge provided room for the RAF to store well over 11,000 tons of ammo, with room to spare for some 2000 tons of TNT for use by the army.

There were very few surface features buildings at Ridge Quarry; the only substantial one left standing is a loading bay. The other buildings were wooden, and were used as housing for military police personnel.

Location: Wiltshire

Condition: Poor

Date Of Visit: 27/08/02

Plan: No

Report: No

Other Sites in the Area:

Monkton Farleigh Underground Ammunition Depot, Ridge Quarry, Westwood Quarry, Box Mine, MF Sidings

Looking back up the now blocked slope shaft one.

RIDGE QUARRY

Ridge Quarry, at the bottom of the number one slope shaft looking down the main haulage way.

A lonely support doing it's bit to keep the roof up. Others lay rotted about it.

This is just off the main haulage way. It is the remains of the lift shaft, now totally blocked.

The bottom of the number one slope shaft.

A munitions bay.

Here you can see the outline of where the narrow gauge railway used to run taking the munitions into their respective bays.

Here you can see the pick and judding bar marks of where the stone blocks were cut from.

A bed for some sort of heavy machinery. Laying on and around it are many nuts and bolts, some of which are the size of a fist.

A out-line of a Soldier in Uniform chiselled into the rock.

On one of the pillars a comic drawing saying 'Who searched you', must have been from the 1940's and refers to the worry of spies.