UK Cement Plants
The following UK cement plants used to be owned by Blue Circle.
- Aberthaw Works - East Aberthaw, Barry, Wales
- Barnstone - Langer Nottinghamshire - ( Kilns closed )
- Cauldon Works - Ashbourne, Derbyshire
- Houghton Regis - Bedfordshire - (1923–1976) Houghton Regis cement factory
- Cookstown works - Cookstown, County Tyrone
- Dunbar Works - East Lothian, Scotland - Only cement factory in Scotland
- Hope Valley Cement works - Hope Valley, Derbyshire
- Harbury Works - Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire
- Martin Earls
- Masons Works - Claydon, Suffolk
- Northfleet - Kent (Currently being Demolished)
- Plymstock
- Shipton On Cherwell (closed 1986, partly demolished/abandoned) - Oxfordshire
- Shoreham (ceased operations 1991)
- Swanscome
- Westbury Works - Westbury, Wiltshire
- Eastgate Works - Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham Closed 2003, Demolished 2005
- Portland Cement Works-Magheramourne, Co Antrim
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