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placename:-
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Brathay Quarries
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site name:-
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Great Brathay
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locality:-
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Brathay
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parish
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Skelwith parish, once in
Lancashire
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county:-
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Cumbria
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slate quarry; quarry
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coordinates:-
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NY356016
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10Km square:-
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NY30
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1Km square |
NY3501 |
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old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
-- probably relevant
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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Flag Quarry
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At Skelwith.
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other name:-
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Flag Quarry
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county:-
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Lancashire
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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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. |
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goto source.
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Page 159:-
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... A quarry one mile from Brathay on the road towards
Hawkshead, yields excellent flags for flooring; and they are
manufactured into tombstones with good effect, by Mr.
Webster of Kendal, and by Mr. Bromley of Keswick. This
quarry affords a good example of the stratification (or, as
some will have it, the rhomboidal crystallization) of these
rocks. The cleavage is here nearly perpendicular; and the
strata, being from one foot to five in thickness, dip to the
south-east at an angle of about thirty degrees. ...
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person:-
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: Webster, Mr
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person:-
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: Bromley, Mr
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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