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| Thwaite Pit, Whitehaven | ||
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| Thwaite Pit | ||
| site name:- | Howgill Collieries | |
| locality:- | Arrowthwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | coal mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NX96741740 (estimate) | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9617 | |
| 10Km square:- | NX91 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 6) placename:- Thwaite Pit |
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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. "Thwaite Pit" |
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| Finlay, Michael: 2006: Mining and Related Tokens of West Cumberland and their Issuers:
Plains Books |
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