An industrial chimney – just short of the height of the spire at Salisbury Cathedral – that has loomed over part of Wiltshire’s countryside for decades is to be demolished.
The Westbury cement works were constructed in the early 1960s and mothballed in 2009, and to attract investors the non-operational parts of the site, including the 122 metre-high chimney, are to be cleared.
The structure will be brought down by a series of controlled explosions, site owners Tarmac said.
