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Clowsgill Limeworks, Farlam
Clowsgill Limeworks
Clowsgill Quarries
locality:-   Clowsgill
locality:-   Cleskett Beck
civil parish:-   Farlam (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   limestone quarry
locality type:-   quarry
locality type:-   limekiln (etc) 
coordinates:-   NY58905907 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5859
10Km square:-   NY55

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BUO78.jpg (taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO80.jpg  Tramroad S from site
(taken 21.5.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 11) 
placename:-  Clowsgill Limeworks
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.
"Clowsgill Limeworks / Quarry / Quarry / Limekilns / Limekilns/ Water Wheel / Inclined Plane"
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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D4NY55NE.jpg
"Lime Kilns"
two circles; limekilns 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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BUO73.jpg  Limekilns.
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO74.jpg  Limekilns.
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO75.jpg  Limekilns.
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO76.jpg  Tramroad from limekilns.
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO79.jpg  Possible site of water wheel?
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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BUO77.jpg  Tramroad N from site.
(taken 21.5.2011)  
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