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        • Upland Peat Bogs
        • Hedges and Hedge-laying
        • Birds
        • Changes in Bird Populations
        • Swan Man
        • NN Flora
        • NN Mammals
        • Fungi
        • Upland Habitats
        • Ullswater's Rainforests
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        • Red Squirrel Group
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          • Storm Desmond
          • Saving the lake
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          • Geology
            • Helvellyn
        • Habitats and wildlife
          • Upland Peat Bogs
          • Hedges and Hedge-laying
          • Birds
          • Changes in Bird Populations
          • Swan Man
          • NN Flora
          • NN Mammals
          • Fungi
          • Upland Habitats
          • Ullswater's Rainforests
        • Conservation
          • Red Squirrel Group
          • Ullswater Catchment Management CIC
          • Wild Lakeland
          • Friends of the Lake District
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          • Glenridding Common
          • Grisedale Beck
      • Inspired by Ullswater
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Mining and Quarrying

Riches from the Rocks

Greenside Mine

The Process of Lead Mining

Mine workers' lives at Greenside

Greenside Mine and the Growth of Glenridding

Child Employment at Greenside Lead Mine

Changing Fortunes at Greenside 1825-1962

Mines and Quarries in the Ullswater Valley

Mining and Quarrying in Cumbria

Mines and Mills 1680-1962

Fell Ponies (blog)

A Day in the Life of a Greenside Miner circa 1851

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