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Kelks Quarry Location Byfield Quarry Shaft P1 Kelks Quarry Shaft Wilk's Quarry Byfield Quarry Shaft R1 Byfield Quarry Shaft 495 Byfield Quarry Shaft Q1 Firs Quarry Shaft A3 Coxe's Vertical Shaft Quarry Byfield Quarry Shaft R2 Byfield Quarry Shaft R4 Byfield Quarry Shaft R3 Byfield Mine Location Cox's Quarry Location Byfield Quarry Shaft S2 Firs Quarry Shaft A1 Byfield Entrance 1 Byfield Entrance 2 Byfield Quarry Shaft S4 Byfield Quarry Unknown Shaft Byfield Quarry - Irving's Incline Byfield Quarry Shaft T1 Allotments Quarry Byfield Quarry Shaft S1 Job Salter's Well Firs Quarry Location Stonehouse Quarry North Byfield Quarry Shaft S18 Firs Quarry - Davidge's Bottom Firs Quarry Shaft B1 Byfield Quarry - Allottment Shaft T2 Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (West) Byfield Quarry Shaft T3 Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (East) Firs Quarry Shaft B2 Firs Quarry Shaft D2 Firs Quarry Shaft D3 Firs Field - Memorial Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft C1 Firs Quarry - De Montalt Place Firs Quarry Shaft 4097 Firs Quarry - Arched Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft I2 Firs Quarry Shaft I5 Firs Quarry Shaft H1 Firs Quarry Shaft CC4 Firs Quarry Shaft 5316 Firs Quarry - Hadley Shaft Firs Quarry - Hadley Arms Entrance
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Combe Down, Bath.
| NGR: | ST 7560 6245 |
| WGS84: | 51.36059, -2.35183 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Depth: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | 165 m |
| Tags: | Mine, Lost, Quarry |
| Registry: | wbc |
This was originally a surface quarry (Addison 1998) but the Oxford Archaelogists (Willies et al 2011) confirmed and surveyed a series of small underground workings with four previously infilled entrances. A graffii, "BEC 30 Dec 1944" close to one of the four entrances, was useful to the Oxford archaelogists in dating the possible closing of the entrances.
The site was used for landfill after 1944, and is now lost under houses and gardens.
Alternative Names: None recorded.
Notes: David Pollard (2025) refers to this site as "Unnamed Quarry" and states that it was active in the 1880s. He also discusses the existence of an entry shaft that was enlarged and destroyed in 2009. The location of this shaft is unknown but is possibly Kelks Quarry Shaft.
Frank Sumsion remembers as a younster prior to World War II, that there was an "entrance to the stone mines at a quarry behind Combe Down rugby club. This quarry became a landfill site during my childhood days."
The Oxford Archaelogists (Willies et al 2011) surveyed links into the neighbouring Kelks Quarry.
Links and Resources:
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