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Vinegar Down Quarry Air Shaft

Combe Down, - Garden of Beechwoods, Beechwoods Road, Bath.

NGR:ST 76011 62094
WGS84:51.35741, -2.34590
Length:0 m
Depth:0 m
Altitude:142 m
Tags:Mine, Shaft, Lost
Registry:wbc

The air shaft would have provided ventilation into Vinegar Down Quarry. The quarry was worked underground in the middle of the 19th Century, reopened in 1912 but closed again in 1913. The site is now levelled and lost.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The air shaft is shown on large scale OS maps between 1887 and 1933.

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This entry was last updated: 2021-02-04 16:40:32

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