{"id":564,"date":"2014-05-05T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T09:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-05-05T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T09:13:52","slug":"the-gypsum-mines-of-chellaston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"The Gypsum Mines of Chellaston"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always knew there was a history of mining and quarrying in the area: there’s what used to be the brickworks – now a nature reserve – at the top of the hill and there used to be an alabaster quarry on High Street. What I didn’t realise was just how close one of the mines used to be – adjacent to where the track to Marsh Flatts Farm joins Chellaston Lane.<\/p>\n

While researching the geology of the area to understand the likely ground conditions a few metres down and to check whether there were any local sandstone deposits that might have been the source of the building stone on the site I came across a report from the British Geological Survey on the gypsum deposits in the Chellaston and Aston-on-Trent districts. The full report is available from the Natural Environment Research Council website <\/a>and I’ve included one of the maps below which shows the location of the “Crevy” workings for Aston No. 1 Mine. Marsh Flatts is on the far right of the map, about a third of the way down.<\/p>\n

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Chellaston Mines Map from BGS Report<\/p><\/div>\n

The report says that Aston No. 1 mine was mostly worked out by 1870 and was formally abandoned (requiring that an “abandonment plan” be lodged in accordance with the 1872 Mines Act) in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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