Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| quarry, Longsleddale | ||
| site name:- | Buckbarrow Crag | |
| civil parish:- | Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | slate quarry | |
| locality type:- | quarry (disused) | |
| coordinates:- | NY47890824 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4708 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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 CAK28.jpg From Steel Pike across the valley. (taken 19.4.2014) |
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| evidence:- | probably old text:- Prior 1865 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England,
by Herman Prior, published by John Garnett, Windermere,
Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865. Page 7, going up the valley:- "... At the top of the ascent, just opposite a pretty waterfall, you reach a quarry with some deserted huts; ..." Page 50:- "... cross a stream by a small bridge. Just beyond this is an abandoned quarry, with a hut; passing which the track descends steeply by the side of the stream, keeping it on the right-hand throughout the descent, ..." |
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