Located two miles north-west of Edinburgh city centre, Craigleith Quarry was active for over 300 years from 1615-1942. At its peak it was the largest and most productive of the city’s eight ...

Craigleith Quarry is being highlighted by the Regionally Important Geological Sites Group (Rigs), as part of the Scottish Geology Festival. Its sandstone was said to have been among the best in the ...

Each section required the brute force of 12 horses and 70 men to haul the blocks of stone from out of Craigleith Quarry and up to the summit of ... Edinburgh in the 1820s was a city of rapid ...

Restoring Edinburgh’s built ... use sandstone from Hazeldean Quarry near Berwick-Upon-Tweed as it most closely matched the original stone from Edinburgh’s legendary Craigleith Quarry. ...

The New Town sandstone came almost exclusively from the Craigleith Quarry, first opened in the 17th Century and finally exhausted in the 1940s.

AT 330 million years old and 10 tonnes in weight, it's not exactly easy to move.But the UK's largest plant fossil - an enormous tree trunk - has… ...