Cleator Moor
Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ N , 3 ° 30 ′ W Cleator Moor is a place and civil parish with 6939 inhabitants (2001) in Cumbria in north-west England.
There were several mines producing iron ore in Cleator Moor . The ore mining meant that parts of the place became uninhabitable due to subsidence. The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway was founded, among other things, to bring the iron ore from Cleator Moor to the steel industry in Workington . The railway line was shut down in 1931. But steel was also produced in the village itself.
Jakob Spreiregen founded the Kangol company in 1938 in Cleator Moor . The factory in the city closed in 2009.
The painter LS Lowry often came to Cleator Moor and painted pictures of the town and its surroundings.
After the end of traditional ore mining, the place is affected by high unemployment and heavily dependent on jobs in nearby Sellafield .
