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Caw Quarry, Coniston
Caw Quarry
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD22849488 (approx) 
1Km square:-   SD2294
10Km square:-   SD29


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BTL68.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  Caw Quarry
item:-  slate
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Caw Quarry (Slate)"


photograph
BTL69.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  
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BTL70.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  
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BTL67.jpg  Track to the quarry,
(taken 25.8.2010)  


Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria)

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