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Cawfields Quarry
| Location: |
Haltwhistle
12½ miles [20 km] NNW of Alston
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 86, 87, OL43) NY714666, 54° 59' 35" N, 2° 26' 49" W |
| Opened: |
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| Owners: |
1930's - Alston Limestone Co. Ltd. |
| Output: |
1922 - Igneous rock. |
| Employment: |
1922 - 34 (29 below, 5 surface) |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
 a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Cawfields Quarry
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Cawfields Quarry
Credits
Sources:
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983
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| | Article from Mine & Quarry Engineering (January 1937) — "Roadstone from the Great Whin Sill" |
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