Business History Explorer

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

Brougham, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
Grassington, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Spofford, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North West, England
Stainmore, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England

Sectors:

Extraction Coal extraction
Basic metals production Iron, steel & related alloys production
Property activities Landed estate management
Extraction Lead extraction

Notes:

Aristocratic family with landed estates in Yorkshire and Westmorland who exploited their coal and lead reserves, for example extracting coal and lead in Grassington, North Yorkshire, iron production at Spofford, also North Yorkshire, coal extraction at Stainmore, Cumbria, and iron production at Brougham, Cumbria. Important members were George, 3rd Earl, 1558-1605, and Francis, 4th Earl, 1559-1641

Publications:

Mining and smelting by the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland in Westmorland in the early seventeenth century by Spence, Richard T
Mining and smelting in Yorkshire by the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland, in the Tudor and early Stuart period by Spence, Richard T

Cumberland, Earls of, landed estates

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