Cleator Moor

54.181271 - 3.507603Koordinaten: 54 ° 11 ' N, 3 ° 30 ' W Cleator Moor is a place and civil parish with a population of 6939 (2001) in Cumbria in North West England.

In Cleator Moor there were several mines that promoted iron ore. Ore mining meant that parts of the village were uninhabitable by cuts. The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway was established for the purpose, 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. In the town itself but also steel was produced.

Jacob Spreiregen founded the company Kangol 1938 in Cleator Moor. The factory in the town was closed in 2009.

The painter LS Lowry often came to Cleator Moor and painted pictures of the city and surrounding areas.

The place is affected by the end of the traditional ore mining of high unemployment and heavily dependent on jobs in the near Sellafield.