hi from cumbria help needed (on Bankstead Mine near Kirkland)

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robin11
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11 years ago

hello im new here,i need help locating a mine,the mine is bankstead mine an iron ore pit near the village of kirkland in west cumbria.

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christwigg
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11 years ago

Hi, not my area of expertise at all but as no-one else has responded.

I had a little poke around and found references to Bankstead and Barbara being near Kirkland. Google tells us they closed in 1921 and 1926 respectively.

Barbara is in the middle of town on the 1925 OS map.
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Theres a shaft and level to the NE of Kirkland near Cockan, but thats showing as 'old' in 1899, so probably not it.
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The following books may cover it (or not because I don't have any of them and i've never been to this area i'm afraid)

“The Kelton & Knockmurton Iron Mines” by R.E. Hewer.
“Kelton Iron” the making of Kirkland by Geoff Brown & Donald Hayton.

John Lawson
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11 years ago

Hi good works Chris am sure the information you posted is going to help.
I would also suggest that he tries to get in touch with the former secretary of the West Cumbria Mines Research group, Dave Banks, who always is a fountain of knowledge on this mining area.
Unfortunatelly I do not have a upto date E-mail address for Dave, but I guess his number will be in Dirctory, he lives just outside Egremont.

ChrisB Underworld
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11 years ago

Anything in Ian Rulers book

Minegeo
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11 years ago

There is some information on pages 206-210 of the Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol. VIII - Iron Ores of West Cumberland, Mem. Geol Surv. 1924

The Kirkland Iron Ore Company of Whitehaven worked the Kelton, Knockmurton and Kirkland mines which were abandoned in March 1914. In 1923 the Kirkland Company proposed to sink a new shaft to the "north of the railway, east of the vein" (The Kelton No 1 Vein).

The name Bankstead does not appear in the Memoir but may refer to workings on the C-Vein and an un-named vein worked from the No 3 Pit 200m to the east of Cockan. (See map on page 207, op cit)