Overwood Quarry

Sandstone was quarried locally  from the Overwood .

Sandstone within the Lower Coal Measures above the Drumgray Seams at Overwood Quarries between the Cander Burn and Carlisle Road.

A local newspaper in 1883 reports that a quarryman Thomas Blakely was killed at Merwood Quarry however this is Overwood  Quarry.  A  number of deaths or accidents at the quarry were recorded.

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