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The site was originally playing fields of the
Salesian Monastery School, which closed in the 1970s. Permission was given to Huntsmans Quarries Ltd in 1980 to extract gravel, and this work began in 1981, continuing until 1987. There was progressive restoration from 1982, in which topsoil and subsoil
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Beckford Parish Council and Huntsmans Quarries. In 2002 Huntsmans Quarries won a restoration award from the Quarry Products Association.
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