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Entry Hill Quarry

Odd Down, Bath.

The Charlton Map of Lyncombe and Widecombe, published in 1799, shows the large Entry Hill Quarry to the west of Entry Hill road.

It is unknown whether there were any underground workings.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The quarry was working as early as June 1776, when the The Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette recorded in June, that James Clapp, the quarry master, was killed by a "falling in of part of the quarry under which he was at work."

An hand coloured aquatint on paper from about 1800, by John Hassall, shows some "Freestone Quarries near Bath." The engraving is possibly of, or near Entry Hill.

Entry Hill Quarry was later worked by James Sheppard in 1835. Some accounts then suggest it was virtually abandoned by 1839. The quarry had been closed by 1904.

It is understood that some quarrying was undertaken by F. C. Tipper in 1914 and that there was another smal revival of the quarry in the 1940s by a Mr Hamblin. The site is now used by BANES Council as a storage depot.