Ancaster

Goldholme Stone re-opened the historic Ancaster quarry over six years ago and it is here that we base our manufacturing operation. The area has been quarried for thousands of years and yields an oolitic limestone varying in colour from white/beige to grey. This stone was formed hundreds of thousands of years ago and, as the name suggests, is made up from ooliths or carbonate particles which formed around fragments of shell or sand on the then shallow sea bed. Additionally the quarry contains considerable reserves of Ancaster Hard White Limestone and we are currently in the process of extending the site a further 12 acres in order to tap into these reserves.

		Pictured are Ancaster Weatherbed Limestone (above left), Ancaster Castle Limestone (above right) and Ancaster Hard White (left).