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Woodend Mine, Threlkeld
Woodend Mine
Woodend Lead Mine
site name:-   Threlkeld Mine
locality:-   Gategill
civil parish:-   Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY32512615 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY3226
10Km square:-   NY32
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
CBO18.jpg  Smithy, or bothy,
(taken 26.8.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 16) 
placename:-  Woodend Mine
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.
"Woodend Mine (Lead)"

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Woodend Mine
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image
PST2NY32.jpg
"Woodend"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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