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Tindale or Tindale Fell is a hamlet in the parish of Farlam in the City of Carlisle district of the English county of Cumbria.〔(Joint parish plan for Brampton Area )〕 It is to the south of the A689 Brampton to Alston road. It is a former mining village- both coal and lead were mined here. Limestone was quarried here.〔(Its page in the Cumbria Directory )〕 Tindale is approximately 15 miles east of the Carlisle. It was here that Stephenson's ''Rocket'' resided before it was donated to the Science Museum in London. ==Mining and Quarrying== Though often located in Brampton, the Gairs mine is described as being in Hallbankgate in 1925. It had 55 working underground and 28 above, though two years earlier it had employed 148 underground and 44 above. It output 70,000 tons of household and steam coal. It was a safe mine and worked two seams, known as the Little Limestone Coal and the Little Limestone seam. It was abandoned in 1936. It was operated by the Naworth Coal Company.〔(Durham Mining Museum ) online date base〕 There were other mines in the area notably the Tindale Drift Mine and the Black Syke Mine in Haltwhistle, and Roachburn and Bishops Hill Colliery at Brampton and the Naworth Colliery and drift mines at Midgeholme.〔(Durham Mining Museum ) list online date base〕 Limestone was quarried at the Silvertop Quarry. 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「Tindale, Cumbria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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