Boulby
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 34 ′ N , 0 ° 50 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | NZ759190 | ||
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| Post town | SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA | ||
| ZIP code section | TS13 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North East England | ||
| Shire county | Redcar and Cleveland | ||
| District | Redcar and Cleveland | ||
Boulby is a village on the North Sea coast of the North York Moors in Redcar and Cleveland , North East England. Near Boulby is the highest cliff in England with 203 meters, various types of mining have always been of economic importance.
Boulby was probably created because the cliffs contain alum that has been mined along the entire coast of the North York Moors since the early Middle Ages. In the Domesday Book , Boulby is listed as Bolebi or Bollebi. During the First World War, the British Army used the territory: In Boulby there is a six-meter-high concave mirror microphone made of reinforced concrete, which was supposed to anticipate arriving ships of the German Navy.
In the beginning, the alum was extracted directly from the cliffs in the opencast mine, later from tunnels that were driven into the cliffs. After the tunnels had been buried for a long time, the erosion partially exposed them again in the 1990s. It is the best preserved alum mine in the area and is protected as an Ancient Scheduled Monument . In terms of tourism, the village benefits above all from the cliffs and the spectacular views there. Among other things, the National Trail Cleveland Way leads past Boulby. The Cleveland Potash Mine , also often called Boulby Mine, which has been producing potassium carbonate since the 1970s, is also economically significant for the area . This is also where the Boulby Underground Laboratory is located , where physical experiments are carried out.
The Boulby mine is connected to the national rail network by a freight link.
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Domesday Book in the National Archive
- ^ Boulby Sound Mirror
- ↑ a b eskvalley.com: Boulby ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hidden Teesside: Boulby Alum Tunnel
- ↑ Teesarcheology: Alum ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Paddy Dilon: Cleveland Way: With Yorkshire Wolds Way and Link , Cicerone Press Limited, 2005, ISBN 1852844477 , p. 143.
