Hodge Close Quarry - Visit Cumbria
Hodge Close Quarry is just one of many slate workings in the Tilberthwaite Valley, between Langdale and Coniston. This was worked on a large scale from the 19th century to small scale in the early 1960s. Hodge Close Quarry is a massive excavation of light green coloured slate, sheer-sided and unfenced, with an original worked depth from ground ...
Cumbrian Slate - UK Slate
Workable slate is obtained from two main geological deposits in Cumbria. Together these deposits have given us the silver-grey slates of Coniston Old Man; the green slates of Broughton Moor, Hodge Close a nd Kirkstone; the blue-black slates of Brathay and Longsleddale; and the blue-grey slates quarried in Kirkby-in-Furness.
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Hodge Close Quarry - Visit Cumbria. Hodge Close Quarry is just one of many slate workings in the Tilberthwaite Valley, between Langdale and Coniston. This was worked on a large scale from the 19th century to small scale in the early 1960s. Hodge Close Quarry is a massive excavation of light green coloured slate, sheer-sided and unfenced, with ...
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Coniston Close Slate Quarry. Slate industry - Wikipedia. The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate.Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine.Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring material, gravestones and memorial tablets, and for ...
Hodge Close Quarry in Coniston, Cumbria. The remains of a ...
Hodge Close Quarry in Coniston, Cumbria. The remains of a crane submerged in a quarry approximately 152m deep. Other items include vans, cars and other machinery used when the slate quarry was active.
Hodge Close Quarry, One Of Britains Scariest Mines! - YouTube
Jan 19, 2018 · Hodge Close Quarry is just one of many slate workings in the Tilberthwaite Valley, between Langdale and Coniston. This was worked on a large scale from the 19th century to small scale in the early ...
Spion Kop Slate Mine, Coniston - YouTube
Aug 24, 2014 · Exploring one of Consitons many disused slate mine levels. Skip navigation ... Sign in. Search. Loading... Close. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue ... Spion Kop Slate Mine, Coniston ...
Slate quarries in Cumbria - britaine.co.uk
Hodge Close Green Slate Quarry. Ambleside / Cumbria. Slate & Slate Products - 2 Fitz Steps ... Langdale, LA22 9PA Ambleside, Cumbria - Telephone: 015394371.... 2. Hodge Close Green Slate Quarry. Coniston / Cumbria. Chalk, Slate & Stone - Hodge Clo, LA21 8DJ Coniston, Cumbria - Telephone ... slate quarries in Cumbria; slate quarries in Ambleside ...
Slate industry - Wikipedia
The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate.Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine.Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring material, gravestones and memorial tablets, and for electrical insulation.
Old Man of Coniston - Wikipedia
The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the Furness Fells in the English Lake District.It is 2,634 feet (803 m) high, and lies to the west of the village of Coniston and the lake, Coniston Water.The fell is sometimes known by the alternative name of Coniston Old Man, or simply The Old Man.The mountain is popular with tourists and fell-walkers with a number of well-marked paths to the summit.
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Dec 07, 2011 · The lake at the abandoned slate quarry near Coniston, in Cumbria, is an eerie enough site - but as this image shows if you turn your head you are …
About Coniston Slate | Coniston Slate
Slate Mine History. The“Old Man of Coniston” is situated in the heart of the Lakes District, it is 2,634 feet (803 m) high, and lies to the west of the village of Coniston.. The slate mines are situated on the North East flank of the Old Man, and are known as "Old Man Quarries", though sometimes given the individual names of: Brandy Crag, SaddleStone and Moss Head.
Slate | Industrial History of Cumbria
Workable slate is obtained from two main geological deposits: 1. The cleaved tuffs of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group of the Ordovician series which give the silver-grey slates of Coniston Old Man; the green slates of Broughton Moor, Hodge Close and Kirkstone; and the …
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Oct 30, 2015 · The abandoned Hodge Close slate quarry, which is 70 metres deep from the surface and has a 20 metre deep lake, is riddled with underwater tunnels, near Coniston, Cumbria in the Lake District.
Hodge Close walk | National Trust
Go through the gateway beside the house and back onto the tarmac road, passing an entrance down into Hodge Close quarry on your left. Hodge Close Quarry is a dramatic example of mans influence upon the appearance of a landscape, featuring a huge cavern with a water filled bottom which dominates the landscape, along with large spoil piles from the slate mining.
Honister – Honister Slate Mine Lake District Adventure ...
Located at the head of Honister Pass in the centre of the Lake District, Honister Slate Mine offers a range of indoor and outdoor adventures for a range of ages and abilities. Honister is also the last working slate mine in England and home to the iconic Westmoorland Green Slate.
Hodge close - Finstrokes
Alternative Names: None, A disused slate quarry situated in the Tilberthwaite Valley, near Coniston, Hodge Close is one of many such slate workings in the Tilberthwaite area. The mine was worked from the 19th century to the early 1960s and is now a site much favoured by divers. Type of Dive: Hodge close is a famous quarry and cave dive.
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Banishead Waterfall - A Confession - Torver
They open the last gate, close it and emerge onto the open fell, cross the remains of the slab bridge over Summer Cove Beck washed away in a storm earlier in the decade, and stare up at Bannishead Quarry. The path divides, one branch turning left to Tranearth, where the …
Holme Fell - Wikipedia
The slopes of Holme Fell include the massive disused green slate quarry at Hodge Close, located at .The quarry closed just before the start of the Second World War.It has flooded chambers and tunnels which are used by cave divers for sport, but it is a dangerous location and several divers have died over the years, after becoming lost in the murky waters of the tunnels.