Jackson, Ian. Cumbria Rocks — 60 extraordinary rocky places that tell the story of the Cumbrian landscape. Newcastle upon Tyne : Northern Heritage, 2022. The richly illustrated and accessible book series of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham Rocks are available to purchase from Northern Heritage.

Heritage and mining

46 Florence Mine — iron mining and link to Norman Nicholson

47 Furness Abbey

48 Gilsland Spa — Spa waters and Popping Stone

49 Hallbankgate — coal, limestone and shale extraction

50 Long Meg and her Daughters

51 Long Meg Mine

52 Loughrigg Fell — Wordsworth and Sedgwick

53 Nenthead — lead mining

54 Newlands — lead, silver mining — link to German miners and Q Elizabeth 1

55 Roughton Gill and Silver Gill — Silver Gill metal mines

56 Saltom Pit

57 Seathwaite — graphite

58 Sellafield — story of proposed underground storage of UK nuclear waste

59 Tullie House

60 Watchtree — Jurassic/Lias and burial

Photographs

(Photo 00-10) 60 sites in 5 themes.