Tindale, Cumbria
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Tindale or Tindale Fell is a hamlet
Hamlet
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 in the parich of Farlam in the City of Carlisle
City of Carlisle
The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages...

 district of the English
England
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 county of Cumbria
Cumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

. .. It is to the south of the A689 Brampton
Brampton
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 to Alston
Alston
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 road. It is a former mining village- both coal and lead were mined here. Limestone was quarried here. It was here that Stephenson's Rocket
Stephenson's Rocket
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 resided before it was donated to a Science Museum in London.
Tindale is approximately 15 miles east of the Carlisle.

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