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quarry, Kentmere (3)
Rainsborrow Cove Quarry
locality:-   Rainsborrow Crag
civil parish:-   Kentmere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY44080691
1Km square:-   NY4406
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
CBD84.jpg  Rainsborrow Crag; Cauldron Quarry, Lambfold Quarry, quarry, Steelrigg Quarry in foreground.
(taken 15.7.2014)  
photograph
CBD92.jpg  Up, right.
(taken 15.7.2014)  

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.
image
PST2NY40.jpg
quarry symbol, head of Kentmere valley 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page


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

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