Hilton, Cumbria

Hilton

St. John the Baptist Church, Hilton
Hilton
 Hilton shown within Cumbria
OS grid referenceNY731206
Civil parishCoupland
DistrictEden
Shire countyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND
Postcode district CA16
Dialling code 017683
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentPenrith and The Border
List of places
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Coordinates: 54°34′48″N 2°24′54″W / 54.580°N 2.415°W / 54.580; -2.415

Hilton is a village in Cumbria, England in the civil parish of Coupland, about 2 km east of Appleby-in-Westmorland.[1]

Some four kilometres to the northeast of Hilton, between Hilton Fell[2] and Murton Fell in Scordale, is the Hilton Mine 54°35′52″N 2°22′6″W / 54.59778°N 2.36833°W / 54.59778; -2.36833[3] Initially worked for lead ore (galena) in the nineteenth century by the London Lead Company, it was later worked under different owners for barium minerals, barytes and witherite in the early twentieth century. It was a rare source of yellow coloured fluorite in the UK.[4][5]

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