Newbold Quarry Park

Newbold Quarry Park is a nature reserve in Newbold-on-Avon, around 1½ miles north-west of Rugby town centre, Warwickshire, England.

[1][2] The site was formerly used to quarry for Blue Lias limestone, in connection with the local cement industry.

[3] The derelict quarry was the scene of a tragedy in October 1990 when two local boys aged ten and six drowned after falling into the water,[4] following this, the site was taken over by Rugby Borough Council in 1991 and turned into a nature reserve with improved access, fencing and warning signs.

[6] Newbold Quarry Park attracts many water birds, such as great crested grebes, swans, moorhens and a variety of ducks.

Skilled Divers exploring it in 2018 discovered, among other dangerous hazards, the remains of two cars dating from the 1970s and 80s, a motorbike, vertical metal beams and an old pram frame.