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Mines in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire's extractive history is chalk: the Chiltern escarpment gave the county some of the best cement-making chalk and marl in the country, worked in vast quarries around Pitstone through the middle of the 20th century. There was no metal and little coal here — the mineral wealth was the hill itself.

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MineWorkedCommodities
Denner Hill Quarries 19th–c. 1950 Sarsen Stone
Pitstone Chalk Quarry and Cement Works 1937–1991 Limestone, Chalk

Record created: 25 August 2026 · Last researched: 25 August 2026

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