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Pickwick Quarry - Old Air Shaft 1

Guyer's House, Corsham.

This is assumed to be an air shaft into the northern workings of Pickwick Quarry.

Alternate Names: None recorded.

Notes: The shaft and two others are shown on some old OS maps, including the 1:25000 (1937-61 series) as an 'Old Air Shaft' but are missing from most of the 6-inch and 25-inch large-scale OS maps of the nineteenth century. The shaft would have entered Spindrift Quarry, which was later connected to the Travellers Rest and Hartham Park Quarries.