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Natalie
October 13, 2023
Hiking
De Lank Quarries is rich in Cornish Granite and the dedicated footpath gets you right up close to the action. The silver grey rock was used to build Waterloo Bridge in London in the early 19th century, the London South Bank & New Scotland Yard a few decades later and more recently for The Queen Mother's Memorial in 2009.
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