Hilton, Cumbria

Hilton
St. John the Baptist Church, Hilton
Hilton  Hilton shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY731206
Civil parish	Coupland
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United 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 Parliament	Penrith and The Border
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Coordinates: 54°34′48″N 2°24′54″W / 54.580°N 2.415°W

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^[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]

References

1. Hilton (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
2. Hilton Fell (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Hilton, Escarpment District, North Pennines, South Eastern Region (Westmorland), Cumbria, England, UK www.mindat.org
4. Important Specimen Producing Mines in and Around Weardale - Page 2 , section: Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria , www.ukminingventures.com
5. The Pennines and Shap , section "Hilton Mine" , www.rock-site.co.uk