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Tunnel Quarry Air Outlet Shaft 2 Seven Shaft Quarry Old Slope Shaft Seven Shaft Quarry Slope Shaft 1 Tunnel Quarry Air Outlet Shaft 3 Brown's Quarry Old Air Shaft Seven Shaft Quarry Old Shaft Seven Shaft Quarry Ventilation Shaft Brown's Quarry Lift Shaft Spring Quarry Exhaust Air Shaft E1 Rudloe Trial/Air Shaft Spring Quarry Shaft - Personnel Lift PL2 Spring Quarry Machinery Lift ML1 Spring Quarry Shaft - Personnel Lift PL1 Tunnel Quarry Air Inlet Shaft 2 Spring Quarry Slope Shaft B Tunnel Quarry Air Inlet Shaft 1 Tunnel Quarry Slope Shafts 2, 3, 4 & 5 Tunnel Quarry Air Outlet Shaft 1 Spring Quarry Exhaust Air Shaft E2 Spring Quarry Air Induction Shaft B3 Rudloe Drainage shafts (1 & 2) Rudloe Air Shaft 1 Spring Quarry Air Induction Shaft B1
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Corsham.
| NGR: | ST 85041 69459 |
| WGS84: | 51.42394, -2.21653 |
| Length: | 0 m |
| Depth: | 0 m |
| Altitude: | 121 m |
| Tags: | Shaft |
| Registry: | wbc |
Work started at Tunnel Quarry in 1844. This was the original major quarry in the area. It had a broad gauge railway running into the underground workings. By 1864 it was producing one hundred thousand tons of stone annually. Taken over by the Navy in 1937. Tunnel Quarry had 42 entrances including 10 air shafts. Slope shafts 'A' and 'C' had personnel escalators. Slope shaft 'D' sunk by War Dept. Slope shaft 'B' was the original Spring Quarry shaft. Emergency exit via slope shaft 'E'
Alternative Names: Tunnel Quarry, Yockney and Hartham Park Stone Co, Corsham Down Quarry, Pockeredge. Seven Shaft Quarry
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