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This website is designed primarily for school children but people of all ages can use it to explore the Quarryman's Walk.

The Quarryman’s Walk runs along a two and a half mile stretch of the Coventry Canal at Hartshill, just north of Nuneaton. This stretch of the canal was built in 1773 to transport the stone from the quarries of Hartshill. The rock quarried at Hartshill is found in very few places in England so people wanted it transported all over the country.

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You can see from the map the large and lasting impacts quarrying has had on the view from the Quarryman’s Walk. The quarries themselves created great holes and hills that totally changed the shape of the landscape. The canal has been followed by railway and then road as faster ways to transport the Quarryman’s Hartshill Stone. In fact although active quarrying has stopped in the three quarries along this stretch of the canal, the view you see today is largely man made.

You can click on the numbered links on the map to find out more about many of the sites. All of the links also focus on one specific theme. Through them you can discover how the Quarrymen quarried the stone, how and where the Hartshill Stone was transported, what it is used for and much more.

Groundwork Coventry & Warwickshire in partnership with British Waterways have begun to develop themed interpretation along the Quarryman’s Walk. Thanks to funding from the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund.

As part of this work, an Interpretation Plan outlining how the Quarryman's Walk could be further developed was developed by Imagemakers.
You can view the Interpretation Plan (pdf: 5mb) through this website.

Groundwork have also worked with Camp Hill Primary School to create a Quarry themed garden in the school grounds. You can also explore the Quarry Garden through this website.