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Cove Quarries, Coniston
Cove Quarries
Low Quarry
Middle Quarry
High Quarry
locality:-   Little Arrow Moor
locality:-   Below Beck Fells
locality:-   Old Man of Coniston
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD27179730 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2797
10Km square:-   SD29
SummaryText:-   Group of quarries; Low, Middle, and High.


photograph
BTN35.jpg (taken 8.9.2010)  

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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  Low 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.
"Low Quarry (Slate)"

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  Middle 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.
"Middle Quarry (Slate)"

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  High 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.
"High Quarry (Slate)"
on Old Man Breast 

MN photo:-  
Low Quarry, at SD27169717 etc.

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CBP13.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP14.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP15.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP16.jpg  Stone wall,
(taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP17.jpg  One building is now a climbing hut,
(taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP18.jpg  Sign:-
"THE JACK DIAMOND MEMORIAL / CLIMBING HUT 1976 / WHITE SPIDER CLIMBING CLUB" (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP19.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP20.jpg  and notice a level.
(taken 2.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
Level in Low Quarry.

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CBP21.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP22.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP23.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
Level in Low Quarry.

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CBP24.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP25.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
Level in Low Quarry.

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CBP26.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP27.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP28.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP29.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP30.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
Level in Low Quarry.

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CBP35.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP36.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP37.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
Middle Quarry, SD27179736; and High Quarry, SD27139751.

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CBP31.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
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CBP32.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  


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

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