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Looking across to Black Combe in the distance.
©SIMON PHILLIPS
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The A 5092 here is the National Park Boundary
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.5km east<br/>Looking over towards the Western Fells from Birlington Slate
©Alpacaandrea
Dist:0.6km east<br/>Looking towards the Furness Fells
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.8km south<br/>There are a number of tunnels marked at the 1:5000 scale, but I have been unable to locate this picture precisely. Whether this was anything other than a drainage tunnel is also not clear. The tunnel entrance is approximately 5 feet high. Also noteworthy are the drystone retaining walls which are so typical of slate quarrying.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.8km south<br/>A typical use of quarry waste to provide a retaining structure.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.8km south<br/>This appears to have been an area where slate could be dressed, then loaded for transport away from the site. There are large numbers of pieces of dressed slate still lying around.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.8km south<br/>Large pieces of partially cut slate have been tipped into a random pile. These pieces are up to around 10 feet long
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.9km southeast<br/>Looking down into quarry from north-east end.
©John Mann
Dist:0.9km northwest<br/>
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.9km south<br/>
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>A 595
©Michael Graham
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Above Press beck on the road to Grizebeck.
©Michael Graham
Dist:1.0km west<br/>A real bottleneck at times as the road passes between the buildings.
©John Holmes
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Windfarm and Quarries in shot
©Michael Graham

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