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| Hodge Close Quarry, Skelwith | ||
| Hodge Close Quarry | ||
| locality:- | Hodge Close | |
| civil parish:- | Skelwith (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | slate quarry | |
| locality type:- | quarry | |
| coordinates:- | NY31630165 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3101 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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 BVR73.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  BVR74.jpg (taken 15.11.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 12) placename:- Hodge Close Quarries |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Hodge Close Quarry item:- slate; quartz; calcite |
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| source data:- | Notes, log book of Geological Outings, mine plans, etc, Kendal
and District Mine Research Society, Kendal area, Cumbria, etc,
visits made 1979-82. Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society Log book page 41:- "DATE - 11/11/79 / MAP REF - 3155/1060 (MAP No 90 1:50000) / LOCATION - HODGE CLOSE (NR. CONISTON) / NAME - HODGE CLOSE QUARRY (SLATE) / TYPE OF SITE - QUARRY / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 26 / SPECIMENS FOUND - SLATE, QUARTZ &CALCITE. / COMMENTS - VERY WET DAY, BUT INTERESTING, VERY LARGE WO[RKED] OUT CAVERNS." Log book page 47:- "DATE - SUNDAY 23/3/80 / MAP REF - / LOCATION - / NAME - / TYPE OF SITE - / WORKING OR DISUSED - / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - / SPECIMENS FOUND - AS 11/11/79 / COMMENTS - AS 11/11/79 BUT WITH A GREAT DEAL OF SNOW!" otherwise:- "AS 11/11/79" item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BVR75.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  BVR76.jpg Building, (taken 15.11.2011)  BZN69.jpg Tip. (taken 15.10.2013) |
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| Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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