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Moresby Parks |
| locality:- |
Moresby |
| civil parish:- |
Moresby (formerly Cumberland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
locality |
| locality type:- |
buildings |
| coordinates:- |
NX99761931 (etc) |
| 1Km square:- |
NX9919 |
| 10Km square:- |
NX91 |
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| evidence:- |
old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 3)
placename:- Moresby Parks
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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.
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notes:-
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80 houses were built by Moresby Coal Co, for miners working at Walk Mill Mine. The
mine manager lived at no.1 and had an indoor tap for water, the others shared a number
of outdoor taps.
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| places:- |
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NX99731926 Moresby Parks Mission (Moresby) |
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NX99661958 Moresby Parks Station (Moresby) |
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NX99781945 police station, Moresby Parks (Moresby) |
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NX99531965 school, Moresby Parks (Moresby) |
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