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Stainton Ground Quarries, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
Stainton Ground Quarries
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   SD22129338 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2293
10Km square:-   SD29


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BTL52.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  
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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 3 16) 
placename:-  Stainton Ground 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:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 3) 
placename:-  Stainton Ground
item:-  slate
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.
"Stainton Ground (Slate Quarry)"


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BTL54.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  
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BTL55.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  
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BTL56.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)  


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BTQ85.jpg (taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ86.jpg  Waste pile, lower mine.
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BTQ87.jpg  Waste pile, lower mine.
(taken 11.10.2010)  

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BTQ88.jpg  Adit, lower mine,
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BTQ89.jpg  Adit, lower mine,
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ90.jpg  Adit, lower mine,
(taken 11.10.2010)  

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BTQ91.jpg  Adit? further up,
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ92.jpg  Adit? further up,
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ93.jpg  Tramroad rail at adit,
(taken 11.10.2010)  

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BTQ95.jpg  Upper quarry.
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ96.jpg  Upper quarry, building.
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ97.jpg  Upper quarry, building.
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BTQ98.jpg  Upper quarry, building.
(taken 11.10.2010)  
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BTQ99.jpg  Upper quarry, building.
(taken 11.10.2010)  


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

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