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Moorbanks Pit, Workington
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Moorbanks Pit
Thompson Pit
Engine Pit
site name:-   Workington Coalfield
locality:-   Workington
civil parish:-   Workington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   coal mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY00032782 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY0027
10Km square:-   NY02

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 11) 
placename:-  Moorbanks 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.
"Moorbanks Pit (Disused Coal Pit)"

notes:-  
either several pits or several names.
Thompson Pit
Moorbanks
Engine Pit, 1730-40

Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977

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