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Castlenook Mine, Above Derwent
Castlenook Mine
locality:-   Castlenook
locality:-   Newlands Valley
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY22741702
1Km square:-   NY2217
10Km square:-   NY21


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BOK72.jpg (taken 19.1.2008)  
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CBI69.jpg (taken 4.8.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69 8) 
placename:-  Castlenook Mine
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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CBI70.jpg (taken 4.8.2014)  
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CBI71.jpg (taken 4.8.2014)  

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Dates from 1860? Last worked 1918. There are trial levels higher up the hill.
West Castlenook Lode, galena.

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

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