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| Parkside Pits, Arlecdon and Frizington | ||
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| Parkside Pits | ||
| Park Pits | ||
| locality:- | Parkside | |
| civil parish:- | Arlecdon and Frizington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY03731597 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0315 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 68 9) placename:- Parkside Pits |
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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. "Parkside Pits (Iron)" "Park Pits (Iron)" with a tramroad |
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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 141:- "Of the deeper deposits, one at High House, near Cleator, had a cover of 49 fathoms, ..." |
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