Hodge Close Quarry - Visit Cumbria
Hodge Close Quarry is a massive excavation of light green coloured slate, sheer-sided and unfenced, with an original worked depth from ground level of about 100m (300 feet). The 150 feet deep face is a favourite with abseilers, while the 150 feet deep flooded workings which extend below the surface are popular with divers.
Hodge Close walk | National Trust
18-11-2019 · Hodge Close Quarry is a dramatic example of mans influence upon the appearance of a landscape, featuring a huge cavern with a water filled bottom which dominates the landscape, along with large spoil piles from the slate mining. Follow the road back to where your car is parked.
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Alternative Names: None, A disused slate quarry situated in the Tilberthwaite Valley, near Coniston, Hodge Close is one of many such slate workings in the Tilberthwaite area. The mine was worked from the 19th century to the early 1960s and is now a site much favoured by divers. Type of Dive: Hodge close is a famous quarry and cave dive.
Make no bones about it, this is Britain¿s scariest …
7-12-2011 · Its taken at a slate quarry called Hodge Close, near Coniston in the Lake District. Divers have died here in the underwater tunnels and climbers have fallen to their deaths. This reflection when turned 90 degrees shows a skull. It has not been manipulated in any way and is very spooky.
Hodge Close Quarry & Caves, Coniston – Family …
Hodge Close Quarry & Caves, Coniston. Hodge Close quarry and caves is certainly an adventure, for young and old alike! A couple of miles north of Coniston, you can park for free at GR 315017 on OS map OL7. Hodge Close offers some amazing views of its massive water …
Hodge Close Trail (Coniston) - 2019 All You Need …
13-8-2017 · Hodge Close Quarry, WARNING VERY DEEP WATER. These are incredible caves known as Hodge close were left by the quarry industry. very deep, very damages always take care stay away from the edge. Do not go beyond the fence. .The drop to the water is as deep as the water is to...
Hodge Close Cave Diving Public Group | Facebook
Hodge Close Cave Diving has 440 members. Hodge Close is a disused slate quarry in the Lake District. This group is for like minded people to share...
Hodge Close Quarry - Extreme Location Diving in …
10-1-2019 · Hodge Close Quarry in Wales, UK. We met at the carpark and quickly headed off to scout out the route to the quarry. Further down the lane from the small National Trust carpark are some quaint ex-quarryman cottages now turned into holiday lets as well as one or two being full-time residential properties for some of the occupants.
Cathedral Quarry & Hodge Close, Little Langdale – …
Cathedral Quarry & Hodge Close, Little Langdale. Cathedral Quarry and Hodge Close are both family walks that we’ve enjoyed in the past. Today we decided to combine them into one 3 – 3.5 mile circular walk, that took in both caves in Little Langdale, in the south Lake District.
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15-7-2015 · Hodge Close Slate Mine. The mine was worked from the 19th century to the early 1960s and is now a site much favoured by divers.Hodge Close, near Coniston in the Lake District in UK is a flooded slate quarry and a couple of sporting passageways.Inside the quarry there are a number of tunnels and caverns.The main tunnel, a little over ...
Hodge Close Quarry, underwater mine Chambers, …
6-8-2011 · Paul Fry and myself explore chambers 1 - 3 at Hodge Close Quarry, Cumbria. Sorry about the quality of footage inside the chambers, the GoPro needs more light. Total dive time was about 40 …
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Hodge Close Cottages, Coniston, Cumbria. 312 likes · 2 talking about this · 123 were here. Secluded holiday cottage in the heart of the Lake District...
Holme Fell and Hodge Close Quarry Autumn …
Holme Fell above Hodge Close Quarry is a place I’ve only visited once before in Autumn last year. I’m intrigued by Hodge Close. It’s a fantastic location and one us Landscape Photographers could spend a very long time exploring.