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| Bigrigg Pit, St Bees | ||
| Bigrigg Pit | ||
| civil parish:- | St Bees (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY003127 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0012 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 72) placename:- Bigrigg Pit item:- iron |
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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. "Bigrigg Pit (Iron)" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) item:- iron ore |
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| source data:- | Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick,
published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published
1877-1913. goto sourcepage 146:- "Accounts of Royalty dues paid to the Lord of the manor show that iron ore was obtained at Bigrigg almost continuously from 1635 to 1701, and that the sum paid annually varied from less than 20s. to L350." goto sourcepage 147:- "The mine was again opened at Bigrigg between the years 1820 and 1825; and a few years later, operations were re-commenced at Crowgarth and other places in the district, but the demand for iron was then so small that it was often scarcely saleable. At this time the ore and water were drawn from the pits by jack-rowls and ginns: and in some of the more heavily-watered pits, the horses working the ginns were kept at full speed both day and night; fresh relays being put in every two hours. It is scarcely necessary to add that these primitive machines were long ago replaced by powerful steam engines." |
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