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Hodge Close Quarry, Skelwith
Hodge Close Quarry
locality:-   Hodge Close
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY31630165 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3101
10Km square:-   NY30


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BVR73.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR74.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 12) 
placename:-  Hodge Close Quarries
source data:-   Maps, 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.

evidence:-   visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82
placename:-  Hodge Close Quarry
item:-  slatequartzcalcite
source data:-   Notes, log book of Geological Outings, mine plans, etc, Kendal and District Mine Research Society, Kendal area, Cumbria, etc, visits made 1979-82.
Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society 
Log book page 41:-  "DATE - 11/11/79 / MAP REF - 3155/1060 (MAP No 90 1:50000) / LOCATION - HODGE CLOSE (NR. CONISTON) / NAME - HODGE CLOSE QUARRY (SLATE) / TYPE OF SITE - QUARRY / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 26 / SPECIMENS FOUND - SLATE, QUARTZ &CALCITE. / COMMENTS - VERY WET DAY, BUT INTERESTING, VERY LARGE WO[RKED] OUT CAVERNS."
Log book page 47:-  "DATE - SUNDAY 23/3/80 / MAP REF - / LOCATION - / NAME - / TYPE OF SITE - / WORKING OR DISUSED - / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - / SPECIMENS FOUND - AS 11/11/79 / COMMENTS - AS 11/11/79 BUT WITH A GREAT DEAL OF SNOW!"
otherwise:-  "AS 11/11/79"
item:-  private collection : 82
Image © see bottom of page


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BVR75.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR76.jpg  Building,
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BZN69.jpg  Tip.
(taken 15.10.2013)  


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