Slipton: church path and former ironstone quarry
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Slipton: church path and former ironstone quarry
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Jun 2012
A green pathway leads from the village street to the church, a little way to the east. The bank beneath the fence is the edge of Lower Church Close Quarry, one of the many shallow ironstone pits worked by the Islip Iron Co in the last two decades of the 19th century. See Image], Image] and others for more about the quarries and the railway which served them. Image] is the view towards the church.
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