Whitehaven in 50 Buildings

by Pat Dargan

Whitehaven was just a fishing village on the Cumbrian coast until the port was developed by the Lowther family in the seventeenth century to export coal from the Cumberland coalfield. In the next century it benefitted from the trade in tobacco, sugar and other products with the West Indies to become the second busiest port in the country. The wealth brought to the area was demonstrated by a new town, the most complete example of a Georgian planned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445699222
• ISBN13: 9781445699226
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"