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How to Find Whitehaven
Grid Reference
British National Grid
NX 97692 20579
Degrees
54.57003°N, 3.58400°W



 Head to the north side of the Harbour Pier and follow the road up to the large Supermarket and towards the train station. You will need to get the opposite side of the railway track, so walk through the supermarket car park and near the garage there is a trackway. Follow this past the station and you will pass some tall cliff faces with a number of factory units situated beneath the cliff face. This old quarry is unfossilferious. Continue walking until the beds change into 'Shale' Most of the cliff is now sadly overgrown, but there is still a good exposure where collecting can be made.

 From the first exposure, there is a tunnel nearby that gives a safe access to the foreshore.

 


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UK Fossils Management - Alister Cruickshanks & Roy Bullard
UK Fossils Curator - Ian Cruickshanks
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