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| Gatebeck Gunpowder Mills, Gatebeck | ||
| Gatebeck Gunpowder Mills | ||
| site name:- | Peasey Beck | |
| locality:- | Gatebeck | |
| civil parish:- | Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | gunpowder mill | |
| coordinates:- | SD543855 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5485 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43) placename:- Gatebeck Powder Works |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Gatebeck Powder Works" |
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Worked by Wakefield and Co, 1850 to 1936. A tramroad was built from the mills via
the Lancaster Canal at Crooklands, to Milnthorpe Station. |
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| Tyler, Ian: 2002: Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria: Blue Roc Publications (Threlkeld, Keswick,
Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9523028 8 8 Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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