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Blackbeck Gunpowder Mills, Colton
Blackbeck Gunpowder Mills
site name:-   Black Beck Tramway
locality:-   Bouth
civil parish:-   Colton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   gunpowder mill
coordinates:-   SD334854
1Km square:-   SD3385
10Km square:-   SD38

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 13) 
placename:-  Black Beck Gunpowder Manufactory
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.
OS County Series (Lan 12 5) 
"Black Beck Gunpowder Manufactory"

:-  
Begun 1860, near Bouth; tramroad on site, and standard gauge rail link to Lakeside; worked till 1929.

Tyler, Ian: 2002: Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria: Blue Roc Publications (Threlkeld, Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9523028 8 8

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