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	limekilns, Coniston Limestone Series
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	geological trail
locality type:-	Coniston limestone series
also see:-	limekilns, Cumbria  geology, Cumbria
	Surprise Locations
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	Most limekilns in Cumbria are found, scattered, in the areas of limestone rocks that partly ring the county. But:
	A series of limekilns are located along the Coniston Limestone Series rocks, where they are unexpected between Borrowdale Volcanic Series and Silurian sediments. A few locality names here indicate limestone.
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notes:-	Jonathan Otley, 1823
	From the Concise Guide to the English Lakes by Jonathan Otley, published Keswick, Cumberland, 1823 onwards.
	5th edn 1834, page 158:-
	"The THIRD division - forming only inferior elevations - commences with a bed of dark-blue or blackish transition limestone, containing here and there a few shells and madrepores, and alternating with a slaty rock of the same colour; the different layers of each being in some places several feet, in others only a few inches in thickness. This limestone crosses the river Duddon near Broughton; passing Broughton Mills it runs in a north-east direction through Torver, by the foot of the Old Man mountain, and appears near Low Yewdale and Yew Tree. Here it makes a considerable slip to the eastward, after which it ranges past the Tarns upon the hills above Borwick Ground; and stretching through Skelwith, it crosses the head of Windermere near Low Wood Inn. Then passing above Dovenest and Skelgill, it traverses the vales of Troutbeck, Kentmere, and Long Sleddale; ..."

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