Hilton, Westmorland

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Hilton
Westmorland

St. John the Baptist Church, Hilton
Location
Grid reference: NY731206
Location: 54°34’48"N, 2°24’54"W
Data
Post town: Appleby In Westmorland
Postcode: CA16
Dialling code: 017683
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Penrith and The Border

Hilton is a village in Westmorland, about two miles east of the county town, Appleby-in-Westmorland.

Some two and a half miles northeast of Hilton, between Hilton Fell and Murton Fell in Scordale, is the Hilton Mine (54°35’52"N, 2°22’6"W).[1] 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.[2][3]

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