 Quarrying started on land owned by the farm in the mid 1840s, and the 1851 census shows quarry agent John Parry living in the farmhouse.By 1861, two quarrymen's cottage were recorded, and these were known to be part off the Abercorris quarry complex.The land occupied by the Abercorris quarry was leased to Thomas Green of London in 1863, who began quarrying operations.