Alston Moor, Cumbria. Buildings in a North Pennines landscape

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Study of the upland mining town of Alston and the surrounding agricultural and mining built landscape including two chapters dealing with the creation and growth of the mining town and satellite villages, 1770-1882, and their decline, 1882-1949. Covers mining, miners' houses, mine shops, etc