	Knockmurton (Iron Ore)	Index	Knockmurton (Iron Ore)

Knockmurton (Iron Ore)

Location:	Lamplugh 7½ miles [12 km] E of Whitehaven
Map Ref:	(Sheet 89) NY091186, 54° 33' 16" N, 3° 24' 20" W
Opened:
Closed:	Jun 1914
Owners:	1880s - Wm. Baird & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1865 - Iron ore.
	1883 - Iron ore.
	1888 - Iron Ore.
	1890 - Iron Ore.
	1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1900 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1902 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1910 - Iron ore (red hematite).
	1920 - Iron ore (red hematite).
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Knockmurton (Iron Ore)
Employment:	1896 - 0 [Inc. in Kelton]
	1900 - 0 [Inc. in Kelton]
	1902 - 141 (121 below, 20 surface) [Kelton and Knockmurton combined]
	1910 - 5 [Suspended, August 1910]
	1920 - 9
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Knockmurton (Iron Ore)
Notes:	1914 - Abandoned

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Sproat, John, 31 Jan 1870, Miner, he was working in an open drain about 14 feet deep, while he was thus employed the sides of the drain gave way, the earth coming down upon him on both sides, and completely burying him. The poor fellow was not got out of the drain till some hours afterwards, when life was extinct

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Knockmurton (Iron Ore)

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Knockmurton (Iron Ore)

Credits

Sources:

1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works