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Disused shaft of former lead mine partly protected by a roof of rotting logs and... (more)

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An 1890s Ordnance Survey maps denotes this as an 'old level'. Whilst... (more)

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Boundary Shaft from the location of the lead mine shaft close to the County... (more)

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This iron-grid capped shaft is located behind the Blacksmith's Shop. It is... (more)

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OS mapping (1:25 000), indicates a number of old mine shafts in the vicinity of... (more)

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The mine shaft is at a location just above the valley of Little Eggleshope where... (more)

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The ring of mine spoil is a grassed over 'collar' of mined waste... (more)

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Across the moor the hushes and spoil heaps of the Manorgill Mines can be seen.... (more)

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One of many old lead mines in the area.

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The Ordnance Survey names this as Little Shaft. The ruin behind was called West... (more)

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The Ordnance Survey names this as Coe Shaft.

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The following is quoted from the 'Details' for the ancient monument in... (more)

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One of the many old lead shafts in the fields around Bonsall

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An adit is a horizontal, or near-horizontal - in this case it is reported that... (more)

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This shaft was driven in the summer of 1843, the going was hard at first but at... (more)

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Sunk in 1850 by the Grindon Hill Mining Company in the adjoining royalty to a... (more)

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Exhibit one on the Lead Mine Trail at Yarnbury. In 1828 this sloping tunnel was... (more)

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School Plantation is to the north.

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Greenlaws Hush is a relic of the lead mining industry as is the... (more)

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Rather a rubbish bit of fencing around this old mine shaft. I suppose the farm... (more)

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Old coal mine shaft by Hollingworth Brook. OS maps do not seem to name the mine... (more)

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The brick cylinder is named on OS maps as an air shaft, presumably of a mine as... (more)

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The mining up here wasn't the best, and may have only been mined when the... (more)

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With Sheen Hill in the background

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Thankfully, due to the fence, this was as close as I could get to this old mine... (more)

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Glog Fawr Lead Mine was begun in 1835 by John Taylor who took over the Lisburne... (more)

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Reconstructed head gear on this former 120' shaft used for mining barytes... (more)

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A shaft from the Billins Lead Mine

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Probably associated with former Brearley Colliery as a shaft in Hollingworth... (more)

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Just one of the shafts of the Little Punchard Gill Mine. Sunk to work an... (more)

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You don't say! This is the shaft in front of the East Wheal Rose Cornish... (more)

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Greenburrow Shaft Pumping Engine House, Ding Dong Mine, Cornwall.

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Photographed from the steps to the winding engine house that one wound this... (more)

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There is an array of disused mine shafts on the Scottish side of the Border... (more)

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In an area known as Tiddly Groove, another ancient rake, this old shaft was... (more)

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Part of the Taylor Rigg Colliery, which was more like 50-100 bell shaped shafts... (more)

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Ramsey Island in the distance.

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This is the same shaft as in the 2012 view SE0566 : Pump shaft, Red Scar Lead Mine, in which it was fenced... (more)

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Shaft from the Billins lead mine which was worked until 1872

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Craigshield Whimsey Shaft, part of Allenheads Mine and gave access to Top Level... (more)

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Earlier OS maps name this an air shaft. There was coal mining at Syke and down... (more)

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Old shaft on Starring Hill, not marked as a named colliery on OS maps

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I didn't read the sign on the fence, but it encloses what I suspect is a... (more)

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PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL - If you do visit this mine do not get too close, this is... (more)

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The Moresdale Great Vein and its associated strings attracted miners from the... (more)

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