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Shap Quarries tramroad
locality:-   Shap Blue Quarry
locality:-   Shap Pink Quarry
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway
1Km square:-   NY5608
1Km square:-   NY5609
1Km square:-   NY5610
10Km square:-   NY50
10Km square:-   NY51
evidence:-   old text:- Bemrose 1881
source data:-   Guide book, Handy Guide to the English Lakes and Shap Spa, published by Bemrose and Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London and Derby, by A B Moss, Carlisle, Cumberland, and by T Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1881.
pp.109-110:-  "The Quarries from which the Shap granite blocks are obtained are about three miles distant from the Works, and at a considerably higher elevation. The two are connected by a railway, the ruling gradients of which are about 1 in 25. This railway is of the same gauge as the London and North-Western line, and this admits of trucks being transferred from one to the other, by means of the sidings at the Works. A look at the quarries and their capabilities will show that there is hardly any limit to the size of blocks that may be quarried; the only difficulty (if even it may be considered one in these days) is the mechanism by which such ponderous masses may be controlled. The blocks actually required seldom exceed 20 tons in weight."
evidence:-   old map:- OS 1900
placename:-  Shap Grantite Works
source data:-   Map, The Lake District, scale 1 mile to 1 inch, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1900.
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evidence:-   old map:- OS 1918 Popular Edition
placename:-  Shap Grantite Works
source data:-   Map series, One Inch Popular edition maps of Great Britain, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1918 onwards.
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