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| Crowgarth Pit, Cleator Moor | ||
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| Crowgarth Pit | ||
| civil parish:- | Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY01631519 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0115 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 12) placename:- Crowgarth Pit |
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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. "Crowgarth Pit (Iron)" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67) placename:- Crowgarth 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. "Crowgarth Pit (Iron)" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) item:- iron ore; colour manufacture; Carron Works, Scotland |
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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:- "In Lyson's History of Cumberland, it is stated that at Crowgarth, in the parish of Cleator, is an iron mine of very superior kidney ore, which was not much worked until the year 1784. About the year 1790, and a few years afterwards, 20,000 tons of ore were annually exported from Whitehaven to Hull and the Carron Works. In 1815, this mine had not been worked for several years, except for a few tons used in the colour manufactory at the Ginns." 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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