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Broughton Moor Quarry, Broughton West
Broughton Moor Quarry
locality:-   Broughton Moor
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   SD25449456 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2594
10Km square:-   SD29

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BMF96.jpg  Current working level.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMF97.jpg  Working face.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  Lay Bank Quarry
item:-  slate
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Lay Bank Quarry (Slate)"
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P159, button  goto source
Page 159:-  "... Roofing slate (called black slate, to distinguish it from the pale-blue of the second division) is manufactured in large quantities in the district between Ulverston and Broughton; which is well situated for shipping either by the river Duddon or by canal from Ulverston."
image OT01P160, button  goto source
Page 160:-  "The preference given to the slates from certain quarries as requiring less weight for the covering of a roof of given dimensions, depends not so much upon the specific gravity (which varies at most from 2750 to 2800, or one part in 55) as upon the fineness of grain, which enables it to bear splitting thinner. ..."

JandMN : 396
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BXO37.jpg  Rock, hand specimen of slate metamorphosed from tuff, from Broughton Moor Quarry, Broughton West, Cumberland, SD254945, 12 June 2006.
Ordovician; Borrowdale Volcanic Group.
(taken 12.6.2006)  

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BMF99.jpg  Slate, with sedimentation bands.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMG01.jpg  Slate, with sedimentation bands.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMF98.jpg  Dump truck moving ?waste.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMG02.jpg  Quarry sheds.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMG03.jpg  Quarry sheds.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMG04.jpg  Stone wall, slate, on site boundary.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager
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BMG05.jpg  Stone wall, slate, on site boundary.
(taken 12.6.2006)  courtesy of the manager

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