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Yewcrag Quarries, Borrowdale
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site name:-   Honister Slate Quarry
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry (disused) 
locality type:-   quarry (disused) 
coordinates:-   NY22351434 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2214
10Km square:-   NY21
SummaryText:-   several quarries

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BSU24.jpg (taken 17.5.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69) 
placename:-  Yewcrag Quarries
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.
"Yewcrag Quarries"
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Slate Quarrys"
no symbol 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Yew Crag Quarry
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY21.jpg
"Yew Crag"
quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Yew Crag Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Honister and Yew Crag Quarries, Borrowdale, Cumberland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST334.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.132 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "HONISTER AND YEW CRAG QUARRIES."
item:-  JandMN : 162.36
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Yew Crag Quarry
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY21.jpg
"Yew Crag"
quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Yew Crag Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Honister and Yew Crag Quarries, Borrowdale, Cumberland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST334.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.132 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "HONISTER AND YEW CRAG QUARRIES."
item:-  JandMN : 162.36
Image © see bottom of page
MN photo:-  
 While there is little to see from the road, there are a lot of workings up the hill. These pictures are taken on a walk through the area.

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