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| William Pit, St Bees | ||
| William Pit | ||
| civil parish:- | St Bees (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY00351253 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0012 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 72 3) placename:- William 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. "William Pit (Iron)" |
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| evidence:- | possibly 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:- "In Robinson's Natural History of Cumberland and Westmorland, published in 1709, we are informed that, "In a place called Langhorn, within the manor of Egremont, is a belly, or pipe of iron ore, eight yards deep, in breadth eighty yards, and in length a hundred: out of which several thousand tons were yearly got for many years last past: the ore was very rich, consisting of button ore, and a penguid shining ore. It answered to his Grace the Duke of Somerset a yearly rent of several hundred pounds. The present lessees are the judicious Thomas Addison, Esquire, and Madam Ann Heber."" |
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