Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| coal mine, Hartside | ||
| locality:- | Hartside | |
| civil parish:- | Glassonby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | coal mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6542 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY64 | |
| SummaryText:- | various old mines | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | possibly old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) item:- coal |
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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 151:- "In R. Singleton's "Account of Melmerby," a manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter at Carlisle, dated 1677, there is amongst other things, the following information: "We fetch coals either from Hartside or Ravenwick (Renwick), a lordship belonging to Queen's Coll., Oxon. At the former place we pay at present fourpence per load, having therefore five pecks of coals. At the latter place but two pence halfpenny per load, and load ourselves at pleasure, or so much as our horses will carry, both which places are upon the matter of equal distance from us, viz., four miles or thereabouts."" |
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