Around a flooded quarry, you can still find traces of the exploitation of yesteryear, such as lime kilns, a rusted portal crane, brick tunnels and a loading quay to transport blocks of stone.
After over fifty years of disuse, this old quarry was cleaned up and made accessible to the general public again.
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