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This category contains 4 sites:

• Ennerdale - Pictures of Ennerdale lake and suggestions of places to stay in Ennerdale Bridge.
• Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven - Haig Pit was Cumbria's last deep coal mine. When it closed in 1986, it ended 700 years of mining history in the area. Over 1200 men, women and children had been killed while winning coal in workings up to four miles out beneath the sea.
• The Beacon Heritage Centre - Official Copeland Borough Council site for 'The Beacon', which shows the history of Whitehaven town and harbour, the Lowther family, the development of coal mining and its disasters, and Whitehaven's shipbuilding history.
• TheRum Story - The Rum Story - the 'Dark Spirit of Whitehaven' is set in the original shop, courtyards, cellars and bonded warehouses of the Jeffersons family business in the Georgian Town of Whitehaven. It depicts the story of rum, bringing to life the slave trade, Ame