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Tongue Gill Mine, Lakes
Tongue Gill Mine
Providence Mine
locality:-   Tongue Gill
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   iron mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY339105
1Km square:-   NY3310
10Km square:-   NY31
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Tongue Gill Iron Mine
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"Tongue Gill Iron Mine"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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North of Little Tongue Gill. Haematite veins worked about 1700; last worked 1876.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

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