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| Millbanks Colliery, Bridgefoot | ||
| Millbanks Colliery | ||
| locality:- | Bridgefoot | |
| civil parish:- | Greysouthen (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | coal mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY05832930 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0529 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 5) placename:- Millbanks Colliery |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Bridgefoot Collliery item:- tub, mine |
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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 151:- "... About sixty years ago, some old workings were broken into at Bridgefoot Colliery, and a very antiquated pick, made of oak wood, having its ends only tipped with iron, was found within them, and also a small truck or box, mounted on wheels, which had evidently been used in carrying out the coal." |
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