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terrybigfoot | 20:25 Mon 16th Feb 2009 | History
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Where did the stone come from to build this incredible building?
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From the Lime stone quarries i think, Like at mallam and Ingleton, though I've not googled it to check, but it makes sense, there may some more local to York I suppose.
yep beejay it would have been from mallam, ooo those clynts and grykes of the geography field trips lol
http://www.wildyorkshire.co.uk/naturediary/doc s/lime.html
ok , dot--what are they
clints and drykes ?
I have always believed it came from Tadcaster
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I've spent some time researching this now and the stone came from the Jack Daw quarry near Tadcaster. Malham Cove is not a quarry, but the site of a huge waterfall that has long sincedried up, the original river now running underground.

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