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| Hill Brow Sulphur Mine, Hill | ||
| Hill Brow Sulphur Mine | ||
| locality:- | Hill Brow | |
| locality:- | Hill, The | |
| civil parish:- | Millom Without (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sulphur mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | SD18088305 (roughly) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1883 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD18 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 88 11) |
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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. "Entrance to Sulphur Mine" |
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Mine for iron pyrite, a source of sulphur; a yellow mineral, jarosite, was found here.
Begun 1851. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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