Lamplugh Colliery
From Graces Guide
A small and short-lived colliery located by the River Marron, between Ullock and Wright Green, in the Parish of Lamplugh, Cumberland.
See also Collieries on the River Marron (pdf file)
Information available on-line is very limited, but a great deal more is available in Cumbria Archives.
The colliery was directly connected to the railway by a branch called the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway: Lamplugh Colliery line.
First sod cut in 1873, first wagon load of coal 1875. Closed circa 1880.
Owned by the Lamplugh Colliery Company, Whitehaven.
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