[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

The Red Shale, was next to Slate Pits Farm off Plantation Lane, turn left at the top of Plantation Lane, then round behind the old Plantation Mill, and it was visible on your left.
All that disappeared when the Easterly Bypass was built.
The redness in shales is usually associated with iron oxides.

Retlaw.

Thanks Retlaw, we used to play on it as young kids - an age when it was safe for pre-teens to wander the hills and moors