Old Cumbria Gazetteer - quarry, North Yorkshire (2)


	quarry, North Yorkshire (2)
locality:-	Ingleton
locality:-	Thornton in Lonsdale
county:-	North Yorkshire
locality type:-	slate quarry
locality type:-	quarry
1Km square:-	SD7074
10Km square:-	SD77
references:-	West 1778

evidence:-	descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
source data:-	Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. goto source Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century Page 251:- "..." "After we had regaled and rested ourselves comfortably at the Bay-horse, we took an evening walk, about a mile above the town [Ingleton], to the slate quarries by the side of the river Wease, or Greta, which comes down out of Chapel-in-the-Dale, and joins the Kingsdale river at Ingleton. Here we had objects both of nature and art to amuse ourselves with. On one" goto source Page 252:- "hand was a precipice ten or twelve yards perpendicular, made by the labour of man, being a quarry of fine large blue slate, affording an useful and ornamental cover for the houses in the adjoining parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Westmorland: on the other hand was the river rolling down from rock to rock, ... Several pieces of the slate were bespangled with yellow marcasites, of a cubic form and different sizes; others were gilded over with the various foliages of ferns, pines, oaks, and other vegetables. This bed of slate runs nearly from south to north, by this place and the quarry near Thornton-force. Its length may be traced two or three miles, though about 200 or 300 yards in breadth - and indeed, of good slate, but a few yards broad. The plain of the stratum is nearly perpendicular to the horizon, and may afford matter of speculation to the natural philosopher, as to its cause, whether from some melted and liquid matter being forced up there at the deluge, or some subsequent volcano; as it is limestone rock on both the east and west side of it, and apparently severed assunder by the weight of the western stratum separating from the above by its inclination to the vale beneath.- ..."

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