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Cleator Moor or is a small town, civil parish and two electoral wards(north and south) in the English county of Cumbria and within the boundaries of the historic county of Cumberland. The town's skyline is dominated by Dent Fell and the town is located on the Coast to Coast Walk that spans Northern England. On the outskirts of the town of Cleator Moor lies the village of Cleator with which the town is closely associated. ==Industry== Historically in Cumberland, the town was based around the iron works industry and was served in this capacity by two railways. The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway (WC&ER) was the first railway on the scene and it opened for goods traffic in 1855, then two years later it opened for passenger traffic. The WC&ER sold out to the London and North Western Railway in 1878 but when the Furness Railway objected to the sale it too became a partner, thus forming the Furness & London and North Western Joint Railway the following year. The second railway to serve Cleator Moor was the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway. This new company had a station on the western edge of the town and its double track main line made a junction with the former company at Cleator Moor West Junction. The town had several iron ore mines and excessive mining caused subsidence. Some parts of the town have been demolished due to undermining in the area, most notably the original Montreal Primary School and the whole of Montreal Street on which it stood. The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway suffered from subsidence and it was forced into building a deviation branch line and located on the line was a passenger station and a goods shed. The original line was retained to serve a local iron ore mine. The influx of Irish workers gave the town the nickname ''Little Ireland''. World War I and World War II saw a fresh influx of immigrants from mainland Europe to join the settled Irish community. This has since caused occasional conflict between Catholic and Protestant residents of the town. In 1938, Jakob Spreiregen founded the company Kangol in Cleator, situated across the road from St Mary's Church. The original factory building still stands but empty, since the company ended its association with the town in 2009. With the decline of traditional industries and the resulting high rate of unemployment, the town's economy is now dependent on the nearby Sellafield complex, which provides jobs to around half the town's people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cleator Moor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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