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High Fellside Quarries, Tilberthwaite
High Fellside Quarries
High Fell Quarries
locality:-   Tilberthwaite
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   NY30540209 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3002
10Km square:-   NY30
altitude:-   1129 feet
altitude:-   344m
MN photo:-  
 The quarry face (NY30490187) being worked is several hundred yards from the working floor.

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CCX04.jpg (taken 22.4.2015)  
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CBZ48.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 8) 
placename:-  High Fellside Quarries
placename:-  Fellside Quarries, High
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:-   possibly old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
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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PST2NY30.jpg
"Tilberthwaite Mines and Quarries"
mine symbol, quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
 pictures in the workshop
MN photo:-  
 Quarry (NY30490187)

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CCX12.jpg (taken 22.4.2015)  
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CBZ45.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ46.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ47.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ56.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ43.jpg  Track to quarry,
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ42.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ44.jpg (taken 29.10.2014)  
MN photo:-  
 Old compressor, and air pipe in use.

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CCX52.jpg  Compressor.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX07.jpg  Air hose.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX08.jpg  Air hose.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX09.jpg  Air hose.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX10.jpg  Air hose.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX05.jpg  Old compressor.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
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CCX06.jpg  Old compressor.
(taken 22.4.2015)  
MN photo:-  
 Another quarry.

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CBZ49.jpg  Quarry,
(taken 29.10.2014)  

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CBZ41.jpg  Hut,
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ51.jpg  Hut,
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ61.jpg  Riving shed,
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ62.jpg  Cutting? and wall,
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ63.jpg  Air pipe?
(taken 29.10.2014)  
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CBZ64.jpg  Reservoir?
(taken 29.10.2014)  

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CCX55.jpg  Neville Walker's father on the left.
 
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CCX56.jpg  Tractor and compressor.
 
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CCX57.jpg  Digger.
 
notes:-  
 My geological knowledge is severely limited, and further confused by the description of the rock at this quarry. It seems to be of the Ordovician era, in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, Seathwaite Fell Formation; 'volcaniclastc sandstone with interbeds of tuff, lapilli tuff, breccia, and conglomerate'. To me the slate it looks like volcanic tuff.

Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria)
person:-    : High Fell Green Slate Co
person:-   quarryman
 : Walker, James Neville
date:-   2015
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