On the Cheshire side of the Goyte, on the Peak Forest Canal, Samuel Oldknow, Esq. has very extensive Lime Kilns for burning Stone of the 3rd and 4th Rocks, brought from Barmoor and Dove-hole Quarries, in Peak Forest.
The Kilns are rather egg-shaped, 36 feet deep, 13 and a half feet diameter at top, and 14 and a half feet in the belly or widest place at nine feet down; diminishing thence, to 3 and a half feet diameter at bottom. Iron shovels are used to draw the Lime at 20 inches above the floors on which the (Kiln) Rail-ways are laid.
From a description of the Lime Kilns in 1813.