Boulby

Boulby is a village on the North Sea coast of the North York Moors in Redcar and Cleveland, North East England. Near Boulby is the highest at 203 meters cliff of England, economically were always different types of mining significant.

Boulby was probably because there is in the cliffs alum, has been mined on the coast of the North York Moors at least since the early Middle Ages. In the Domesday Book Boulby is listed as Bolebi or Bollebi. In the time of the First World War, the British Army used the territory: Boulby is a nearly six -meter-high concave mirror microphone of reinforced concrete, which should anticipate incoming ships of the German Navy.

The alum was originally funded directly from the cliffs still open pit, later of tunnels that were driven into the cliff. After the tunnels were spilled long time, erosion has it partially exposed again in the 1990s. It is the best preserved alum - mine the area, which is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Tourist benefited the village but especially of the cliffs and the spectacular views from there. Among other things, the Cleveland Way National Trail runs past Boulby. Economically significant for the area is also the Cleveland Potash Mine, also often called Boulby Mine, which promotes potassium since the 1970s. There are also the Boulby Underground Laboratory is housed, where physical experiments are conducted.

The mine in Boulby is connected with a freight connection to the national railway network.

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