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Dobwalls ByPass

Location - Dobwalls, Cornwall, UK

Customers - Interserve Project Services Ltd, WBM Ltd, Riviera Stonemasons Ltd, R Clemens Ltd

Project type - Trunk road construction

Materials used -

  • Lantoom Quarry Class A Hardcore
  • Lantoom Quarry Medium Walling Stone
  • Lantoom Quarry Small Walling Stone
  • Lantoom Quarry Large Walling Stone  (Cornish Hedging Stone)

Lantoom Quarry supplied a range of products to this multi-million pound road scheme to by-pass the village of Dobwalls.

The scheme form part of the A38 Trunk Road under the control of the Highways Agency.

40,000 Cubic Metres of Class A Hardcore provided by Lantoom Quarry  was used for earthworks to form the road foundations. 

Medium Walling stone was used for wall construction at Looe Mills and was also used to face Havett Bridge, to the North of Dobwalls.

Small walling stone was used extensively to face gabion baskets across different parts of the road works.

Large walling stone was used to construct new Cornish hedges bordering the road.

   

Small walling stone used to face gabion baskets

Medium Walling stone used to face a bridge supporting wall

 

  Small walling stone used to face gabion baskets forming a landscaped retaining wall

 

 

Medium walling stone used to construct a new masonary boundary wall

 

Large walling stone used to build Cornish Hedges