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NW lime kiln at Pill Farm

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Monkton, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 July 2005.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of NW lime kiln at Pill Farm, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Date of designation
29 July 2005
Locality
Monkton
Town
Pembroke
Community
Pembroke
Unitary authority
Pembrokeshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.67499, -4.93632
Cadw reference
84982

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

On the E side of Quoits Water Pill some 30m SE of Pill Farm.

C18 to earlier C19 large lime kiln on E side of Quoits Water Pill.

Lime-kiln, rubble stone with semi-circular face to W, with segmentally arched kiln-eye recess with splayed sides S side, with stone voussoirs. Kiln-eye on N side has collapsed.

Included for its special interest as a substantial lime-kiln, evidence of the coastal lime trade of the C18 and C19.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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