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Bantling Castle Lime Kilns is a set of industrial structures located in Durham, England, associated with lime production activities. The kilns represent the exploitation of local limestone resources and reflect the industrial heritage of the region during the post-medieval period. These structures form part of the broader archaeological and industrial landscape of Durham, documenting the economic activities that sustained local communities through the extraction and processing of lime, a material essential for construction, agriculture, and other contemporary industries.
Bantling Castle Lime Kilns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1491814. View the official record →
Bantling Castle Lime Kilns is a set of industrial structures located in Durham, England, associated with lime production activities. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1491814.
Bantling Castle Lime Kilns is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1491814.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Collierley Chapel (2.7 km), Derwentcote steel cementation furnace, iron finery forge and drift coal mine (5 km), Lanchester Roman fort (Longovicium) (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bantling Castle Lime Kilns's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bantling Castle Lime Kilns stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.