Barnstone, Granby and Langar, 7th July 2019

Elaine led this 6-mile morning walk from the Village Hall in Barnstone, over fields (and a bit of road) to the outskirts of Granby, then round the edge of the old landfill site, past the new biodigester and cement works in Barnstone and out to Langar before returning for the VBR Lunch in the Garden at Brenda's.

Thanks to  Brenda and her helpers who made it a very pleasant day.

Village Hall, Barnstone

Just north of Barnstone

River Whipling, just outside Granby

Managing the fuel pile for the biodiester

Merrivale Energy Ltd Anaerobic Digestion facility, commissioned in 2015 and exporting 500kW to the cement works and utilising 730 kW of heat to dry woodchip and digestate fibre.  Inputs are local supplies of energy crops, chicken manure, whey and pressed pulp

Barnstone Cement Plant - opened in 1864 to produce lime from nearby blue lias limestone quarries, then Portland cement clinker