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By 1790, the mine was employing 400 men, women and children and producing 4,000 tons a year. By 1800, the ore had almost been worked out and the Duke relinquished his interest, with the mine finally closing in 1891. The Duke's profits had been almost a third of a million pounds and enabled him, so it
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creamery, re-routing milk collection in the area to road transport. The loss of this milk trade removed most of the goods traffic from the line. Two years after the closure of the creamery, in 1934, the L&MVLR closed.
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