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Hodgson How Quarry, Above Derwent
Hodgson How Quarry
locality:-   Hodgson How
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   quarry
locality type:-   slate quarry
coordinates:-   NY24372362
1Km square:-   NY2423
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 5) 
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.
"Quarry"

evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Hodgson How Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Hodgson How Quarry, looking SE, Above Derwent, Cumberland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST302.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.1 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "HODGSON HOW QUARRY, LOOKING S.E. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 162.4
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Hodgson How Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Hodgson How Quarry, looking ENE, Above Derwent, Cumberland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST303.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.1 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "HODGSON HOW QUARRY, LOOKING E.N.E. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 162.5
Image © see bottom of page


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