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Mirk Hole Quarry, Tilberthwaite
Mirk Hole Quarry
locality:-   Tilberthwaite
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY31080187 (? etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3101
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   OS County Series


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BZN71.jpg (taken 15.10.2013)  
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BZN70.jpg (taken 15.10.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 1 8) 
placename:-  Mirk Hole Quarry
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:-   possibly old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY30.jpg
"Tilberthwaite Mines and Quarries"
mine symbol, quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page


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BZN72.jpg (taken 15.10.2013)  


Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria)

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