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Silverband Mine, Milburn
Silverband Mine
locality:-   Silver Band
locality:-   Great Dun Fell
locality:-   Milburn Forest
civil parish:-   Milburn (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY70303194 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY7031
10Km square:-   NY73

photograph
BSX21.jpg  Buildings,
(taken 2.6.2010)  
photograph
BSX22.jpg  ?tubbing mill.
(taken 2.6.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 5 4) 
placename:-  Silverband Mine
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.
"Silverband Mine (Lead) / Crushing Mill / Level / Level"
nearby is:-  "Old Silver Hush / Dam"
and running from the mine to the Knock Ore Gill is another:-  "Hush"
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Silver Band 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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PST2NY63.jpg
"Silver Band Mine"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BSX23.jpg  ?tubbing mill.
(taken 2.6.2010)  
photograph
BSX24.jpg  ?tubbing mill.
(taken 2.6.2010)  
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BSX25.jpg  Remains of aerial ropeway
(taken 2.6.2010)  
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BSX20.jpg  Buildings,
(taken 2.6.2010)  
photograph
BRF40.jpg  Hush below the Silverband Mine.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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