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| Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural | ||
| Shap Pink Quarry | ||
| Shap Granite Quarries | ||
| site name:- | Wasdale Crag | |
| locality:- | Shap Fells | |
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | granite quarry | |
| locality type:- | quarry | |
| coordinates:- | NY55780834 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5508 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY50 | |
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 BJT44.jpg (taken 22.8.2005)  Click to enlarge CFY04.jpg (taken 24.3.2017) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Shap Granite Quarry item:- Shap granite; granite |
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| source data:- | Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick,
published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published
1877-1913. goto sourcepage 157:- "There are two quarries near Shap, namely, the Granite Quarry and the Rhyolite Quarry, the latter of which yields a superior quality of blue Macadam of great hardness. The Shap Granite Quarries yield granite in two shades of colour, one dark, and the other of a much lighter shade, but each contains the large crystals of pink felspar, which are the characteristic feature of the granite. This is the only quarry in English Lakeland which possesses an efficient polishing plant, and lathes capable of turning out polished columns of almost any size, as well as broad polished slabs of this unique and very beautiful granite. The quarry face, being nearly half-a-mile in length, by 80 to 200 feet in depth, and having few joints in it, blocks of vast size can be obtained, up to or exceeding 20 tons in weight. The proprietors of this quarry claim that they have been the real pioneers in the manufacture of Concrete Flags, and that since the commencement of this branch of their work, nearly 2,000,000 yards of flags have been sent away from their works." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS 1900 placename:- Shap Grantite Works |
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| source data:- | Map, The Lake District, scale 1 mile to 1 inch, published by the
Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1900. OS25Pce.jpg |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS 1918 Popular Edition placename:- Shap Grantite Works |
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| source data:- | Map series, One Inch Popular edition maps of Great Britain,
scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey,
Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1918 onwards. OS18Pce.jpg |
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 BJZ86.jpg Detail from the Millennium Window, St Michael's Church, Shap, design by Adam Goodyear, 2000. (taken 11.11.2005) |
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| Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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