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Taylor's Shaft
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY9648
Disused shaft of former lead mine partly protected by a roof of rotting logs and... (more)
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Remains of Boundary Shaft on Whimsey Hill
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY7745
Boundary Shaft from the location of the lead mine shaft close to the County... (more)
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Old mining level
by Ian Dodds
geograph for square NT0062
An 1890s Ordnance Survey maps denotes this as an 'old level'. Whilst... (more)
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Fenced-off old mine shaft, Manor Slack Hass
by Alan O'Dowd
geograph for square NS8914
An old shaft related to lead mining in these hills. This photo doesn't... (more)
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Copper Mine Chimney and collapsed Mine Shaft at Gallantry Bank
by Jeff Buck
geograph for square SJ5154
Copper mining at Bickerton was first recorded in 1696. The mine was owned by the... (more)
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Llywernog Mine - Silver Mountain Experience
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SN7381
Now a museum site. The mine operated predominantly as a lead mine but there was... (more)
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Craig Shield Mine Shaft
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY8545
This iron-grid capped shaft is located behind the Blacksmith's Shop. It is... (more)
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Swan's Shaft
by Oliver Dixon
geograph for square NY7832
Flooded mine shaft, part of the old Greenhurth lead mine, closed 1902. Some old... (more)
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Fenced mine shaft north of Yad Moss
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY7836
OS mapping (1:25 000), indicates a number of old mine shafts in the vicinity of... (more)
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Mine shaft beside flue of Rookhope Chimney
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY9243
The ring of mine spoil is a grassed over 'collar' of mined waste... (more)
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Geevor Mine - Wheal Mexico shaft
by Chris Allen
for square SW3734
Positions are approximate. As part of the visit to this former tin mine one can... (more)
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Decaying masonry at head of old mine shaft
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY9831
The mine shaft is at a location just above the valley of Little Eggleshope where... (more)
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Old Mine Shaft above Wiregill
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square NY9731
Across the moor the hushes and spoil heaps of the Manorgill Mines can be seen.... (more)
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Fenced-off mine shaft
by Ian Calderwood
geograph for square SK2759
One of many old lead mines in the area.
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Walling about shaft top
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY7944
The cylinder of dry stone walling is built about an old mine shaft though the... (more)
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Brow Pit mine shaft and gin circle wall, Halifax
by Humphrey Bolton
geograph for square SE0828
The following is quoted from the 'Details' for the ancient monument in... (more)
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Fenced-off lead mine shafts above Cressbrook Dale
by Ian Calderwood
geograph for square SK1774
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Capped mine shaft east of Middle Westend
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY8545
The Ordnance Survey names this as Little Shaft. The ruin behind was called West... (more)
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Capped mine shaft near Middle Westend
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY8545
The Ordnance Survey names this as Coe Shaft.
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Mine Shaft in Fred Dibnah's Back Garden
by David Dixon
for square SD7208
A look down the twenty foot, brick-lined mine shaft below Fred's pit head... (more)
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Known as Sir Thomas or Sun Side Pasture Shaft
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square SE1265
This shaft was driven in the summer of 1843, the going was hard at first but at... (more)
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Grindon Hill Shaft
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square NY8367
Sunk in 1850 by the Grindon Hill Mining Company in the adjoining royalty to a... (more)
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Disused shaft or sheepfold?
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY8245
At different scales OS mapping tells that the collapsing walling is either a... (more)
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Disused Mine Shaft
by Graham Loveland
geograph for square SW7442
A poor picture, with the flare on the lens, but included because it shows not... (more)
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A capped mine shaft
by Ian Calderwood
geograph for square SK2657
One of the many old lead shafts in the fields around Bonsall
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Lawhead Shale Mine Adit Entrance
by Ian Dodds
geograph for square NT0355
An adit is a horizontal, or near-horizontal - in this case it is reported that... (more)
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1795 mine pumping shaft - Elsecar
by Chris Allen
for square SK3899
This shows the top of the shaft that was drained by the 1795 Newcomen engine... (more)
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Inclined Shaft
by Rude Health
geograph for square SE0165
Exhibit one on the Lead Mine Trail at Yarnbury. In 1828 this sloping tunnel was... (more)
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Capped pit shaft as mining disaster memorial
by Jonathan Hutchins
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Capped mine shaft north of West End (ruin)
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NY8545
School Plantation is to the north.
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Mine spoil near to Greenlaws Hush
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY8736
Greenlaws Hush is a relic of the lead mining industry as is the... (more)
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Geevor Tin Mine - The mine shaft lift gates
by Chris Gorringe
for square SW3734
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Mine Shaft, Pibble Mine
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square NX5260
Rather a rubbish bit of fencing around this old mine shaft. I suppose the farm... (more)
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Capped Mine Shaft
by Kevin Waterhouse
geograph for square SD9415
Old coal mine shaft by Hollingworth Brook. OS maps do not seem to name the mine... (more)
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Brick column of air shaft in field
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NZ1531
The brick cylinder is named on OS maps as an air shaft, presumably of a mine as... (more)
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Collar of mine spoil on Great Pinseat
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY9702
Features such as this are very common in mining areas where a shaft has been dug... (more)
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Geevor Tin Mine - The main lift shaft of the mine
by Chris Gorringe
for square SW3734
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Great Laxey Mine - Welsh Shaft
by Chris Allen
for square SC4385
This shaft was sunk in 1840 and reached a depth of 1800'. It was 12 degrees... (more)
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Levant Mine - Skip Shaft
by Chris Allen
for square SW3634
The cage in the upcast shaft that connected with the Geevor workings latterly.... (more)
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Old Mine Shafts on Booze Moor
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square NZ0104
The mining up here wasn't the best, and may have only been mined when the... (more)
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Old lead shafts below Carder Low
by Ian Calderwood
geograph for square SK1262
With Sheen Hill in the background
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Mine spoil and railway sleepers on Flinty Fell
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY7742
Flinty Fell is a moorland hill close to Nenthead. The mound in which the... (more)
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Western Shaft, Glog Fach Mine
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square SN7470
Thankfully, due to the fence, this was as close as I could get to this old mine... (more)
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Davey Shaft, Glog Fawr Mine
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square SN7570
Glog Fawr Lead Mine was begun in 1835 by John Taylor who took over the Lisburne... (more)
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Bishop Shaft
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square NY9503
Just one of the shafts of the Little Punchard Gill Mine. Sunk to work an... (more)
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East Wheal Rose - danger deep water
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SW8355
You don't say! This is the shaft in front of the East Wheal Rose Cornish... (more)
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Snailbeach - Black Tom shaft
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SJ3702
Reconstructed head gear on this former 120' shaft used for mining barytes... (more)
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Bestwood Colliery - top of the shaft
by Chris Allen
for square SK5547
The top of the shaft has these two pulleys sliding on a guide frame and... (more)
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Mine shaft
by Elizabeth Scott
geograph for square SW5630
The protection around this mine shaft has fallen into disrepair.
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Mine shaft on Halkyn Mountain
by Eirian Evans
geograph for square SJ1972
A shaft from the Billins Lead Mine
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