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salt pans, Crosscanonby
Saltpans
Crosscanonby Salt Pans
civil parish:-   Crosscanonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   salt pans
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY06684013 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY0640
10Km square:-   NY04


photograph
BPH78.jpg  Salt pan.
the structure on the beach is visible in the background.
(taken 14.6.2008)  
photograph
BPH79.jpg  Remains of water tank scaffold on the beach.
(taken 14.6.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY04SE.jpg
"Salt Pans"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house; or salt pans on the foreshore? 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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FD02NY03.jpg
"Salt Pans"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
Crosscanonby Salt Pans were leased to Richard Barwise in 1634, they were probably began about 1630. A land survey of 1699 calls them Mr Lamplugh's salt pans; and shows another set of salt pans south of Crosscanonby which belonged to the Senhouse Family of Netherhall, the Netherhall Salt Pans. The saltern probably ceased working in the 1760s.
On the beach was a water tank on a wooden scaffold, whose footings remain, from which sea water ran onto the sleech in the kinch. Sleech is salt laden sand from the beach; the kinch, where it was piled up is the large round pond, sealed by puddled clay, that can be seen clearly on the site. The strong brine from the kinch trickled down to the brine pit just to the south. The brine was then boiled in iron pans to produce salt, which crystalized out of the brine. Coal for the saltern came from Crosshow, near Dearham.
From 1698 a salt tax was levied. One salt officer was John Smith, d.1730, whose tombstone is at Crosscanonby church, with a carving of him at his desk.
The new coast road was built 1824 and went through the site; the kinch and the salters' cottages were all that was obviously visible. One of the cottages was a pub, possibly called The Solway Inn, for a time.

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18th century washing and settling tanks on the shore.

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