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| Lindal Moor Iron Mines, Lindal and Marton | ||
| Lindal Moor Iron Mines | ||
| locality:- | Lindal Moor | |
| civil parish:- | Lindal and Marton (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | SD248767 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2476 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16) placename:- Lindale Moor Iron Mines item:- iron ore |
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| 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. "Lindale Moor Iron Mines" tramroad to railway |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) item:- iron ore |
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| source data:- | Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick,
published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published
1877-1913. goto sourcepage 143:- "Still more to the east, and a little further south, in a line with Askam and Millom, there is at Lindal Moor, a third rich mine, where ore has been raised for generations past, and which is still yielding large quantities, 59,480 tons having been raised during the year 1909. The length of the principal deposit, so far as it has been worked, is about 170 fathoms, and its width varies from a" goto sourcepage 146:- "few inches up to 15 fathoms. At the northern end, the deposit has been worked to a depth of 60 fathoms, and at the southern end to a depth of 70 fathoms, and the bottom of the ore has not been reached." "The hanging wall of the deposit is irregular, portions of it being nearly vertical, but the lying wall or cheek coincides with portions of two faults, as shown on the section." |
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