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Guards Quarries, Coniston
Guards Quarries
locality:-   Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   flagstone quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD31139847
1Km square:-   SD3198
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4 4) 
placename:-  Guards Quarries
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.


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

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