Houses and farm at Stonebroom
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Houses and farm at Stonebroom
Image: © Peter Barr Taken: 26 Nov 2010
A former mining village. The village is linear and was formed from two hamlets, early maps show them as Upper Stone and Lower Stone. The School playing field was once the site of a quarry, this is still called Quarry Lane. It is probable that the name Stonebroom was derived from this quarry which provided stone, it is said that the field behind the quarry was full of broom, which gave one possible explanation for the unusual village name. (Wikipedia)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.131077
Longitude
-1.385688