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Welcome Nook Quarry, Skelwith
Welcome Nook Quarry
locality:-   Holme Fell
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY31700124 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3101
10Km square:-   NY30


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BVR68.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 12) 
placename:-  Welcome Nook 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.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series 1890s
placename:-  Wellcome Nook Quarry
source data:-   "Wellcome Nook Quarry"


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BVR69.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR70.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  


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

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