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crater, Patterdale
Glencoynedale Quarries
site name:-   Greenside Lead Mine
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY35871849 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3518
10Km square:-   NY31


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BOV33.jpg (taken 17.3.2008)  


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BOH49.jpg (taken 17.10.2007)  
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CEE09.jpg (taken 20.10.2015)  
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CEE10.jpg  Rock to the left.
(taken 20.10.2015)  
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CEE11.jpg  Rock to the right.
(taken 20.10.2015)  
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CEE12.jpg (taken 20.10.2015)  

hearsay:-  
This is said to be not a quarry but a crater made when there was a mine collapse in the lead mine below, on a Sunday in 1862.

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