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placename:- White Creek Mine
parish Arnside parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
mine
coordinates:- SD45667539
10Km square:- SD47
References KDMRS 1979-82

1Km square SD4575

sketch map:- KDMRS 1979-82

Log book and sketch maps from the Kendal and District Mine Research Society, 1979-82.
Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society
Log book page 3:-
DATE - SUNDAY 25/3/79 / MAP REF - N/A / LOCATION - ARNSIDE CLIFFS / NAME - ARNSIDE/ TYPE OF SITE - SEA CLIFFS / WORKING OR DISUSED - N/A / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - No.3 / SPECIMENS FOUND - CORALS FOSSILISED, ALL SIZES AND SHAPES. BIVALVE APPROX 3[in] DIAMETER./ COMMENTS - WENT IN SEARCH OF WHITE CREEK MINE. SEARCHED ARNSIDE CLIFF WOODS FOR APPROX. 2 HRS, AND FOUND NOTHING TO INDICATE A MINE HAD EVER BEEN THERE, THOUGH IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT IT HAS COLLAPSED AND BEEN OVERGROWN, SINCE THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS MINE WERE TAKEN IN 1962/1964.

placename:- White Creek Mine
locality:- Arnside Cliff Woods
date:- 1979
period:- 1970s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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