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'Millstone Grit'

Here on the Pennine Way...

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles. The name derives from its use in earlier times as a source of millstones for use principally in watermills. Geologists refer to the whole suite of rocks that encompass the individual limestone beds and the intervening mudstones as the Millstone Grit Group. (Wiki)

The area adjoining this above Rochdale is known as Blackstone Edge.

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Uploaded on May 22, 2019
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