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Bean Well, Aldingham
Bean Well
civil parish:-   Aldingham (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   SD29027199 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2971
10Km square:-   SD27

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 22 3) 
placename:-  Bean Well
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.

evidence:-   old print:- Fell 1908
placename:-  Bean Well
source data:-   Print, Eighteenth Century Shipping Port, Beanwell, Aldingham, Lancashire, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, 1908, published by Hume Kitchin, 7 Market Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, 1908.
image  click to enlarge
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Tipped in opposite p.321 of The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District, by Alfred Fell. 
printed, bottom  "AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SHIPPING PORT, BEANWELL"
printed, lower left  "A HEATON COOPER - 1908"
item:-  Armitt Library : A701.8
Image © see bottom of page

notes:-  
Iron ore was brought to the coast for shipping here to Backbarrow Furnace. Garden soil here is stil stained red from the ore.

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