England, Lancashire
Gambleside abandoned colliery village
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: horseshoes, clay pipe stems.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Tudor vaccary to Victorian colliery hamlet
Rossendale Forest cow farm let to the Ormerods in 1507, on a packhorse limersgate between Clitheroe and Rochdale. Gambleside Colliery opened in 1612 and worked until 1936, but the Ormerods left about 1874 and the village was abandoned in the 1890s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old mine shafts, moorland
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