Parkside Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UKi

Regional Level Types
Parkside Mine	Mine
Frizington	Village
Arlecdon & Frizington	Civil Parish
Copeland	District
Cumbria	County
England	Constituent Country
UK	Country

Parkside (Iron Ore) Mine was located 0.6 miles (1 km) S of the village of Frizington and 4 miles [6 km] ESE of the town of Whitehaven.

Started in 1855 by the Parkside Mining Company. It soon became a very successful mine with, for example, over 100,000 tons of ore being raised in 1873 from a huge flat deposit in the First limestone. However, by the mid-1870s output was declining rapidly and when the royalty was renewed in 1875 the property to the east of the road was split between the Goosegreen Co. and the New Parkside Co.

In 1877 the company opened up ore in the Fourth limestone sinking a new shaft (No.19) and in 1894 took over the Crossgill Mine which had worked the same shallow body of ore and the Dalmellington No.7 pit.

By 1913 Crossgill Mine was the only part left working and all were closed by 1925.

The Parkside Company worked a number of mines in West Cumbria and numbered their pits chronological with no reference to a specific mine so although Pit No.19 was at Parkside, this does not imply that there was that number of pits at Parkside, for example, Pits Nos. 11 & 14 were at Salter and Pit No. 20 was at the Winder mines in the Windergill valley!

Metal mining in Cumbria's western area was dominated by the large deposits of high-grade hematite iron ore found in the limestone strata. Some of the horizontal ore bodies were so large that they were worked from a number of mines and numerous shafts. For example, Crossgill, Parkside, Frizington Parks, Goose Green and High House mines worked the same body of ore which extended laterally over 16 hectares.

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