OS grid reference NY731206 Country England Post town APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND Shire county Cumbria Dialling code 017683 UK parliament constituency Penrith and The Border | Region North West Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district CA16 District Eden District Civil parish Coupland | |
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Hilton is a village in Cumbria, England in the civil parish of Coupland, about 2 km east of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
Map of Hilton, Appleby-in-Westmorland, UK
Some four kilometres to the northeast of Hilton, between Hilton Fell and Murton Fell in Scordale, is the Hilton Mine 54°35′52″N 2°22′6″W Initially worked for lead ore (galena) in the nineteenth century by the London Lead Company, it was later worked under different owners for barium minerals, barytes and witherite in the early twentieth century. It was a rare source of yellow coloured fluorite in the UK.
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