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Lime kilns is a scheduled ancient monument located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises the remains of lime-burning kilns, industrial structures that were essential to local building and agricultural practices from the medieval period through the early modern and later periods. Lime kilns of this type were used to calcinate limestone, producing quicklime for use in mortar, plaster, and as a soil amendment. The survival of such structures provides evidence of industrial activity and the development of building technologies across several centuries of Northumbrian history.
Lime kilns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006434. View the official record →
Lime kilns is a scheduled ancient monument located in Northumberland, England.
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 1006434.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Fort on the Heugh and underlying midden (0.9 km), Boundary cross 170m south west of Herring House (1.1 km), Medieval chapel and associated building on St Cuthbert's Isle (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of 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.
Lime kilns stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.