Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| iron mine, Harrington | ||
| locality:- | Harrington | |
| civil parish:- | Workington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9925 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NX92 | |
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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:- "About the year 1790, there was a deposit of ironstone discovered above the coal seams, near Harrington, from which about 2,000 tons were, for a length of time, annually exported to Wales and Scotland." |
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