Shepherd's Walk Quarry

There was a small quarry close to where Shepherd's walk joins Southstoke Road. This was shown as No 4 on the map in the April 13th 1895 issue of "The Builder."

The site is now built on by the house and is probably a lost site. It is possible however, that an original quarry face provides the southern boundary of the garden of 19 Southstoke Road.

Notes: The quarry was probably worked at the end of the nineteenth, and into the early twentieth centuries. Willies et al (2011), suggest that there some limited underground quarrying occurred

Penn and Wyatt (1979) recored that a borehole drilled at Shepherds Walk in 1971, showed 11.4 m of limestone underlain by clay.

Links and Resources:

Addison, Peter, 1998. Around Combe Down, Bath: Millstream Books.
Penn,I E, and Wyatt, R J. 1979. The stratigraphy and correlation of the Bathonian strata in the Bath-Frome area. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 78/22, 23-88.
The Builder, 13 April 1895. Bath Stone, Vol. 68, No. 2723, 273-278 https://archive.org/details/gri_33125007022987/page/273/mode/1up
Willies, L.M., Redvers-Higgins, N. and Ianto Wain, 2011. Finished labour of a thousand hands : the archaeology of the Combe Down Stone Mines, Bath, Somerset. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology. https://https://eprints.oxfordarchaeology.com/765/

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NGR:	ST 74826 61883
WGS84:	51.35546, -2.36291
Length:	0 m
Depth:	0 m
Altitude:	157 m
Tags:	Mine, Lost
Registry:	wbc

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