The nearby clay quarry is currently used as a landfill site for waste from Liverpool.
The dump site was a series of holes which were initially clay quarries and later utilized as a dumping place for discarded fort objects.
Bricks were also manufactured adjacent to clay quarries on the hills above the suburb.
To this day, there are a great number of birch trees in the bird conservation area at the clay quarries.
The clay quarry to the south-west of the village was known as the Lady Quarry from the 15th century but is now filled in.
The village originally grew from the development of a clay quarry, the clay used to make chimney pots and bricks-the famous Fareham Red.
It had been reduced to a shallow clay quarry in the haste to extract soil for the disc and its buttresses.
The park started life as a clay quarry serving the Crowborough Brickworks that closed in 1980.
There be the clay quarries of Jahlyr and his family.
Tempe is the site of several large clay quarries used to supply the large brick kilns located on the Princes Highway at St Peters.