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placename:- Broughton Moor Quarry
locality:- Broughton Moor
parish Broughton West parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
slate quarry; quarry
coordinates:- SD254945
10Km square:- SD29
1Km square SD2594
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Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Current working level. -- 12.6.2006
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Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Working face. -- 12.6.2006
old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4)

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.
Lay Bank Quarry (Slate)
placename:- Lay Bank Quarry
date:- 1847=1851
period:- 19th century, late; 1840s; 1850s
descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
image OT01P159, button   goto source.
Page 159:-
... Roofing slate (called black slate, to distinguish it from the pale-blue of the second division) is manufactured in large quantities in the district between Ulverston and Broughton; which is well situated for shipping either by the river Duddon or by canal from Ulverston.
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Page 160:-
The preference given to the slates from certain quarries as requiring less weight for the covering of a roof of given dimensions, depends not so much upon the specific gravity (which varies at most from 2750 to 2800, or one part in 55) as upon the fineness of grain, which enables it to bear splitting thinner. ...
date:- 1823
period:- 19th century, early; 1820s
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tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Slate, with sedimentation bands. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Slate, with sedimentation bands. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Dump truck moving ?waste. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Quarry sheds. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Quarry sheds. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Stone wall, slate, on site boundary. -- 12.6.2006
tiny photograph, button to large Broughton Moor Quarry -- Broughton Moor -- Broughton West -- Cumbria / -- Stone wall, slate, on site boundary. -- 12.6.2006
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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