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Elterwater Quarry, Elterwater
Elterwater Quarries
Robinson Quarry
Lord's Quarry
Pepper's Quarry
locality:-   Elterwater
locality:-   Great Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   slate quarry
locality type:-   quarry
coordinates:-   NY32330488 (etc etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3204
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BNL35.jpg (taken 26.3.2007)  
photograph
BVX04.jpg (taken 15.2.2012)  
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Elter Water Quarries
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.
image
PST2NY30.jpg
"Elter Water Quarries"
quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Elterwater Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Elterwater Quarry, Elterwater, Westmorland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST335.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.136 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "ELTERWATER QUARRY."
item:-  JandMN : 162.37
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Elter Water Quarries
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.
image
PST2NY30.jpg
"Elter Water Quarries"
quarry symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Elterwater Quarry
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Elterwater Quarry, Elterwater, Westmorland, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST335.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.136 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, bottom  "ELTERWATER QUARRY."
item:-  JandMN : 162.37
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BSC73.jpg (taken 1.2.2010)  

photograph
CCX59.jpg  courtesy of Neville Walker.
photograph
CCX60.jpg  courtesy of Neville Walker.

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