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| Elterwater Gunpowder Mills, Elterwater | ||
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| Elterwater Gunpowder Mills | ||
| locality:- | Elterwater | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | gunpowder mill | |
| coordinates:- | NY32640496 (estimate) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3205 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 8) placename:- Powder Mill |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 104:- "... Here [Chapel Stile], taking the road to the left, we come ... at a little distance on the right, the works lately erected for the manufacture of gunpowder. ..." |
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Begun by David Huddlestone and Co, 1824; worked to 1931. |
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| Tyler, Ian: 2002: Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria: Blue Roc Publications (Threlkeld, Keswick,
Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9523028 8 8 |
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