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Lodge Hill Quarry - Exit Shaft

Lodge Hill Quarry, Combe Down, Bath.

The NGR is not known. Price (1984) states that the exit is a built in shaft exiting into a tangled spinney where the hill falls away to the south.

Alternative Names: Combe Down Quarries, Shaft Mine, Shaft Road Quarry, Shaft Road Mine

Notes: Lodge Hill quarry was quite large quarry east of Shaft Road worked in 1850s and closed 1934-5 having covered an area of 6.5 acres. Small regular system and there are a number of main galleries like wheel spokes from the entrance. the quarry was very shallow, only feet below the surface. The stone from Lodge Hill was used in the restoration of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster in 1819. It was owned by Vaughan-Jenkins family. In 1858 it was being worked by Thos. Shepherd, J. Davidge, J. Sumsion, Henry Stone and J. Vaughan.