Rochester : Lime Kiln

The evidence for other industrial activity in the vicinity of High Rochester may be summarised briefly. The lime kiln (NY 8440 9850) 500 m ESE of Dykehead farm is first marked on Greenwood's map of 1827.

It was already described as ‘the old lime-kiln’ by MacLauchlan in 1851 (1852a, 35), but still features on the 1st edition 6 inch series Ordnance Survey map as simply ‘limekiln’ (Day & Charlton 1981, 294). During its working life it must have provided a market for the neighbouring collieries.