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| quarry, Langstrath | ||
| locality:- | Langstrath | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | slate quarry | |
| locality type:- | quarry | |
| coordinates:- | NY27231161 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2711 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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| evidence:- | probably old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) item:- slate |
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| source data:- | Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick,
published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published
1877-1913. goto sourcepage 136:- "In Langstrath Valley, Borrowdale, about half-a-mile south of Eagle Crag, there is an old quarry of considerable extent. The bed of the ash from which the slate has been obtained at this place is near the middle of the Volcanic Series, and it would seem that it is the only point, either in this or the adjoining beds, where cleavage has been sufficiently developed." |
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| Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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