Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CANN QUARRY

CANN QUARRY, an excavation in dark blue slate, 4¼ miles NNE of Plymouth, in Devon. It is finely overhung by foliage; and has workings of the slate by water machinery.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an excavation"
Administrative units: Devon Ancient County

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