Long Meg Mine
Long Meg Mine is a disused gypsum mine just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria in the area known as Cave Wood Valley. It was operated between 1880 and 1976.Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Eden Lacy Viaduct and Lacy’s Caves.
Eden Lacy Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eden Lacy Viaduct is a bridge, which is situated 640 feet west of Long Meg Mine.
Lacy’s Caves
Cave
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lacy's Caves are a series of five chambers in the red sandstone cliff of the River Eden, just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England, near Nunnery, Cumbria, at grid reference NY564383. Lacy’s Caves is situated 1,700 feet north of Long Meg Mine.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age. Long Meg and Her Daughters is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Long Meg Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Salkeld and Glassonby.
Little Salkeld
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.
Glassonby
Village
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It lies about 3 miles south south east of Kirkoswald.
Eden Valley
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eden Valley runs northward through the county of Cumbria from its source high on the fells at Mallerstang and enters the sea 91 miles later at Carlisle.
Long Meg Mine
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Description: gypsum mine in the United Kingdom
- Categories: gypsum quarry, tourism, and mine
- Location: Glassonby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.73294° or 54° 43′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.68° or 2° 40′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C6VP8MC+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 367899969OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=mineOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointWikidata ID
Q6672991
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In Other Languages
“Long Meg Mine” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ロング・メグ鉱山”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Throstle Hall Brow Wood and Cave Wood.
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