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Crosby Colliery, Crosscanonby
Crosby Colliery
locality:-   Maryport and Carlisle Railway
civil parish:-   Crosscanonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   coal mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY09103880
1Km square:-   NY0938
10Km square:-   NY03
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 35 15) 
placename:-  Crosby Colliery
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.
with railway sidings from the Maryport and Carlisle Railway 

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Crosby 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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"Crosby"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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