>Subject: For moderation - Re: Burtersett Quarries
>From: "Martin Roe" <[log in to unmask]>
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>The Burtersett Quarries are by no means unusual, there were quite a number
>of underground quarry (stone mining) operations in the Yorkshire Dales from
>Arkengarthdale down to Nidderdale.Possibly the last of these to work were
>the Chert quarries in Arkengarthdale which i think were still working in the
>1950's.
>
>You appear to be surprised at the use of the term quarry to describe
>underground workings. I think i am right in saying that it was after an act
>of parliament in the 1870s that the legal distinction was made between mines
>and quarries i.e. quarries are open to the sky, mines are not.Before that
>time the terms were used a little more flexibly.
>
>Martin Roe
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