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were in the Coniston Fells; the slate was shipped from Penny Bridge
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In 1780, Green saw the quarry near the top of the Old Man
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W. Rigge & Son of Hawkshead, who worked some of them, exported 1,100 tons and upward a year, and the carriage to Penny Bridge was 6s. 10d. to 7s. 10d. a ton. The slate was shipped at Kirkby Quay upon sailing boats, of which there were enough upon the water in 1819 to furnish the subject of a paragraph in Green's _Guide_ describing a scene of