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The brick and stone structures are the Marsden limekilns built in the late 1870's. The limestone was quarried nearby, the coal mined from Whitburn Colliery, and the lime was used mainly for agricultural purposes on farms across the country but also for steel mills at home as well as overseas. The miners of Whitburn Colliery lived at Marsden Village adjacent to the lime kilns but the village has disappeared as if it never existed except for the kilns, razed to the ground when the colliery closed in 1968 after a hundred years of mining. You can get closer to the lime kilns for closer inspection as another cycle track passes closeby.
The 'coast road' here was built during the Depression (1926 - 1929) as a job creation program and has become a major motorised coastal route as well offering a cycle route for cyclists. Unusually for cyclists in England there is a choice of safe cycling options - the tarmaced roadside shared cycle path or the newer clifftop broken stone trail.
