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Arcrow Quarry, North Yorkshire
Arcrow Quarry
locality:-   Horton in Lonsdale
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD80287054 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD8070
10Km square:-   SD87

evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P276, button  goto source
Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
Page 276:-  "... About a couple of miles from Horton, on the right hand side of the road to Settle, is a curious stone quarry, at a place called Culms or Coums. The stones are of a blue kind, like slate, from one to three inches thick: some are two or three yards broad, and five or six yards long. They are made use of for floors in houses, being sometimes laid over cellars, on joists: they are also used for gate-posts, foot-bridges, and partitions between the stalls in stables and cow-houses."

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