Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Birkham's Quarry | |
| site name:- | St Bees Head | |
| parish |
St Bees parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| quarry; sandstone quarry | ||
| coordinates:- |
NX955154 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NX91
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| 1Km square | NX9515 | |
 Birkham's Quarry -- St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- 29.8.2008 | ||
 Birkham's Quarry -- St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- 29.8.2008 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 67)
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| 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. | ||
| Birkham's Quarry | ||
| placename:- | Birkham's Quarry | |
| date:- | 1867=1868 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| photographs | ||
| Birkham's Quarry -- St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- The sandstone is banded red and white; the red is coloured by iron as Fe2O3, the white by iron as FeO. -- 29.8.2008 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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