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Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries is a post-medieval and modern industrial monument located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference GM536. The site exploits the limestone-rich Dinantian rocks that underlie this area, a geological sequence formed during the Mississippian period and comprising limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks. These naturally occurring deposits made the location ideal for lime-burning, an essential industry that supplied quicklime for building mortar, agricultural soil improvement and other contemporary uses.
The monument consists of the kiln structure itself along with the associated quarry workings that provided its raw material. The Dinantian limestone bedrock was quarried to obtain the calcite-rich stone necessary for the lime-burning process. The kiln would have operated by heating the limestone to high temperatures, a technique that remained substantially unchanged from medieval times through to the industrial period.
The site represents the local importance of lime production within Wales during its post-medieval and modern phases. Such kilns were typically positioned where suitable limestone deposits occurred, and the surviving remains at Parc le Breos preserve evidence of the quarrying and industrial practices that sustained regional building and agricultural economies.
Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM536. View the official record →
Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries is a post-medieval and modern industrial monument located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference GM536.
Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a limekiln. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is GM536.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Penmaen Burrows Church (1.8 km), Penmaen Burrows Burial Chamber (1.9 km), Penmaen Burrows Ringwork (1.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries'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.
Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.