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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALSTON

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 757 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALSTON , a market-town in the Penrith parliamentary division of
Cumberland
 , England, 29 M. by road E.S.E. of
Carlisle
 , on a branch of the North-Eastern railway from Haltwhistle. Pop. (1901) 3133 It lies in the uppermost part of the valley of the
South
  Tyne, among the high - bleak moors of the Pennines. Copper and Mende are found, and there are limestone quarries. The mines of argentiferous lead, belonging to Greenwich
Hospital
 
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, London, were formerly of
great
  value, and it was in order that royalties on the Alston lead mines and on those elsewhere in the county might be jointly collected that the parish was first included within the borders of
Cumberland
 , in the 18th century. As many as 119 lead mines were worked in the parish in 1768, but the
supply
  of metal has been almost exhausted. Coal is worked chiefly for lime-burning, and
umber
  is prepared for the manufacture of colours.
Thread
  and flannels are also made. Whitley Castle, 2 in. N., was a Roman fort, the
original
  name of which is not. known, guarding the road which ran along the
South
  Tyne valley and over the Pennines. It has no connexion with Alston itself.


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