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Bursting Stone Quarry, Coniston
Bursting Stone Quarry
Brossen Stone Quarry
locality:-   Below Beck Fells
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD27889735 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2797
10Km square:-   SD29


photograph
CBP08.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
photograph
CBP09.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4 3) 
placename:-  Bursting Stone Quarry
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.


photograph
CBP05.jpg  Access road.
(taken 2.9.2014)  


Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria)

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