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Sites of regional and national industrial heritage importance cluster around Greenhow Hill and include the limekiln at Toft Gate. It can be accessed via a carpark on Greenhow Hill heading out of Pateley Bridge. Toft Gate lime kiln was built between the 1860s and 1870s to meet the growing demands for lime as agricultural lime for pasture improvement and as mortar lime for building, in particular in the expanding West Yorkshire towns. The lime was transported using the railway line that came to Pateley in 1860. Previously the agricultural demand for lime had been satisified by small scale field kilns that are evidenced on a mining plan of Coldstones from 1800. Lime burning ceased at Toft Gate in around 1910 and the site was recently consolidated by English Heritage. |