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Ambleside and District

Elizabethan Miners

Event type: Meeting
Date: 25th January 2027
Group: Local History
Venue: Kelsick Centre

Mark Hatton. ‘Elizabethan Miners’.

Mark Hatton is from The Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society (CATMHS). In 1564 a group of Copper Miners came to Keswick from Germany. They brought progress in several fields and brought technology far more advanced than had been seen before. What did they do?