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.