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Staveley Mine, Over Staveley
Staveley Mine
civil parish:-   Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY45760172 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY4501
10Km square:-   NY40
SummaryText:-   workings here and further east and south east
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
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.
image OT01P160, button  goto source
Page 160:-  "... a small quantity of galena, with green and yellow phosphate of lead, which has been got near Staveley; ..."

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East side of River Kent. Lead vein, galena, discovered 1755. Abandoned by 1895.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

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