Peak alum works

What a fascinating place Peak alum works is. !  Well worth a visit.   Currently being updated. Please come back soon Alum was discovered here in 1640 and the works were build to process the calcined ore and to export the alum flour. The remains are above a beautiful bay shown here at low tide , with Robins Hood bay in the background . The invisible quarries of the Peak Alum Works Peak Alum works were built because of the locally sourced shale rock which could be quarried and then processed to make alum.   Today there is virtually no sign of the of the quarries that once changed the face the of the hillsides.  They have been covered by gorse and bracken and have disappeared into the landscape.   The Peak Alum works were operational from 1650 to 1860 when a cheaper route to alum was discovered.  The shale from the…