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| iron mine, Ennerdale | ||
| locality:- | Clews Gill | |
| locality:- | Ennerdale | |
| civil parish:- | Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1315 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY11 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Clews Gill Mine item:- iron ore; haematite |
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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 138:- "..." "Several veins of haematite have been worked to some extent near Ennerdale Lake, one of them, namely, Clews Gill, forms the dividing line between the Ennerdale and Buttermere Granophyre and the Skiddaw Slate, and the two rocks form the walls on opposite sides of a portion of the workings." |
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