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| Caudale Quarry, Patterdale | ||
| Caudale Quarry | ||
| Cawdale Quarry | ||
| locality:- | Caudale | |
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | slate quarry | |
| locality type:- | quarry | |
| coordinates:- | NY40871084 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4010 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
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| evidence:- | possibly old text:- Clarke 1787 item:- slate; trail barrow |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 154:- "... a large quarry, from which the blue slate is brought down to the foot of the mountain, not by horses, but men: a man will carry eight hundred weight at a time, and go faster with it than without it; trials of that kind having been often made: The slate is laid upon a barrow, which is called a Trail Barrow; it hath two inclining handles, or stangs; between which the man is placed, going, like a horse, before the weight, and has nothing more to do than keep it in the tract, and prevent it from running too fast: those who are dexterous will not sometimes set foot on the ground for ten or twelve yards together: but the barrow will often run away with an unskilful person, which was my case when I made an attempt. The length that it is so carried is here about half a mile; the ascent so steep, that to many persons it is easier than the descent." |
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| evidence:- | possibly old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) |
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| 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. PST2NY41.jpg mine symbol, S of Hartsop item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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