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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 228. Not illustrated. Chapters: Seathwaite, Allerdale. Excerpt: Seathwaite is a hamlet in the Borrowdale valley in the Lake District of Cumbria, North West England. It is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads south from the portion of the B5289 road that runs between Borrowdale civil parish and Seatoller over the Honister Pass. The nearby Seathwaite Fell takes its name from the hamlet and lies about 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) to the southsouthwest of it. The name derives from a combination of the Old Norse words sef (sedges) and thveit (clearing) and may be taken to mean "Sedges clearing." The name, then spelled Seuthwayt, first appeared in written records dating from 1340. For local government purposes Seathwaite forms part of the civil parish of Borrowdale, the district of Allerdale, and the county of Cumbria. It is within the Workington constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament, and the North West England constituency of the European Parliament. Along the nearby Newhouse Gill that descends from Grey Knotts is a graphite mine that was started after the discovery of graphite there in 1555. The extracted graphite was eventually used to supply the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company factory in Keswick. The commercial mining of the unusual solid form of graphite found near Seathwaite hamlet was stopped by about 1891 when veins of the solid graphite became harder to find. Also, around that time the Keswick pencil factories had switched to making pencil pigments out of the familiar combination of clay powder and graphite powder. Graphite powder could be mined and imported from elsewhere. The mine entrance is northnorthwest of the hamlet at . Seathwaite is the wettest inhabited place in England and receives around 3,552 millimetres (140 in) of rain per year. In September 1966, five inc...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155854038
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 230
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155854039
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Seathwaite, Allerdale
  • Width: 152 mm


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