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Harleyford Aggregates

The aggregates business was founded over 40 years ago and forms an integral and vital part of the Harleyford Group of Companies.  Supplying a variety of products from their many quarries and pits concentrated mainly in the West County and West London, it has also gone from strength to strength more recently by operating joint ventures with the likes of Hanson and Cemex, formerly RMC.  Products include:

• Sand - washed, sharp and soft
• Gravel - 5mm, 10mm and 20mm plus ballast
• Coloured mortars
• Hoggin, "as dug" fill material
• Bagged products of a full range of materials in 25kg, 40kg and 1 ton bags

FASCINATING FINDS!

Before the extraction process on a new site can begin, a full archaeological dig is commissioned by the Aggregate business.  Many exciting discoveries have been made including:

• Remnants of Iron Age Round houses and settlements from the Late Bronze Age.
• Skeletons from the 3rd/4th centuries AD.
• Many fascinating artefacts including a Mesolithic flint tool from early Stone Age
• Evidence of prehistoric mammals including a tusk from a woolly mammoth from the Ice Age.
• The earliest evidence for ironworking around 1000BC in Britain, 300 years earlier than previously found.

Glass bead necklace plus jet hairpins, ring and spindle whorl from the Roman burial at Denham (pictured above).

GRAND ASPIRATIONS

Harleyford is renowned for its successful re-development of the sites after extraction to preserve and promote the community and the environment.  Such projects include activity lakes, housing, business parks and re-instatement of farmland.

RIVER FREIGHT RETURNS TO LONDON

Harleyford Aggregates was instrumental in bringing freight transport back to the Grand Union Canal.  Supplying Hanson at West Drayton, the project with British Waterways involved the construction of a conveyor spanning the River Colne and under 2 roads.  A new wharf was built and 2 barges constructed to carry the 64,000 tons a year resulting in the removal of 45,000 lorry movements from the highly congested West London roadways.