Gill Mill

The group's flagship operation, the Gill Mill aggregate processing plant, lies next to the River Windrush at Ducklington, a village near the West Oxfordshire town of Witney.

With an operational capacity of 450,000 tonnes per year, the plant produces a wide range of washed sands and gravels for use in many differing projects, from the construction of roads and bridges, to building homes and hospitals. Customers include farmers and private individuals as well as commercial users.

Gill Mill is operated to the highest standards, in both production and restoration, and in accordance with the rigorous mineral planning processes of Oxfordshire County Council.

The reserve at Gill Mill is sufficient to maintain operations for many years to come. The quarry is also the location for a recycling operation, in conjunction with an inert landfill site.

Duns Tew

Located near the North Oxfordshire village of Duns Tew, the group's soft sand operation makes an important contribution to the range of aggregates available for sale. In combination with fine washed sand from Gill Mill, soft sand from Duns Tew is used to produce a mixed building sand, popular with house builders for use in mortar.

Gill Mill aggregates and other materials are also stored at Duns Tew for sale to the local market.

Worsham

The former limestone quarry at Worsham, located west of Witney near to the village of Minster Lovell, was acquired by Smiths in 2004 as a major development in their recycling business.

Construction and demolition waste is reprocessed on site using crushing and screening equipment to produce hardcore, sub base and fill materials which complement and supplement our primary quarried materials.  The inert residue left from processing is infilled on site as part of the quarry’s restoration works.

Worsham’s location near to Gill Mill and Burford, fits well with our haulage network in West Oxfordshire.

Ardley

Situated in the east of Oxfordshire, between the villages of Ardley and Middleton Stoney, Ardley Quarry gives rise to the second strand of the group's product range.

Quarrying the oolitic limestone reserve produces a range of crushed and graded limestone materials for use in all forms of construction, particularly road building.

Graded limestone from Ardley Quarry was supplied for the construction of the M40 extension in the late 1980s. The quarry's proximity to junction 10 of the motorway makes it particularly well placed to serve its market.

In addition, the quarry produces agricultural lime for consumption in the farming industry.

Burford

Opening late 2007, Burford quarry between Witney and Burford on the A40, and is the group’s third limestone quarry.  Complementing Ardley to the east and Broadway to the north.

The crushed and graded limestone is produced for construction and road building purposes, with the agricultural lime market also being supplied.

Broadway

In the late 1980s the group diversified it's core business, investing in a quarry at Broadway, Worcestershire. The quarry provides a plentiful source of natural Cotswold limestone block for use as the raw material in the manufacture of building stone and architectural masonry, which is so important to the traditional buildings found in the surrounding Cotswold villages. More recently, block stone has been sold further afield, and for use in high quality flooring, as the demand for natural Cotswold products has increased.

In addition, a further crushed stone business is operated from the quarry, serving the market with crushed and graded limestone.