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Kells Pit, Whitehaven
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Kells Pit
site name:-   Whitehaven Coalfield
locality:-   Kells
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   coal mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NX96801661 (estimate) 
1Km square:-   NX9616
10Km square:-   NX91

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 6) 
placename:-  Kells Pit
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.
"Kell's Pit (Old Coal Pit)"


Finlay, Michael: 2006: Mining and Related Tokens of West Cumberland and their Issuers: Plains Books

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