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Moss Rigg Quarry, Coniston
Moss Rigg Quarry
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY31190243 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3102
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BZN76.jpg  Tip.
(taken 15.10.2013)  
photograph
BZN77.jpg  Tip; remains of tramroad wagons.
(taken 15.10.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 8) 
placename:-  Moss Rigg 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.


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

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