Ore Mining in the Lake District
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Ore Mining in the Lake District

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eBook - ePub

Ore Mining in the Lake District

About this book

The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have been discovered and worked over the past 1, 000 years. Many still remain to be discovered. The last working metal-ore mine in the Lake District, the Force Crag Mine, closed in 1986. It is believed that mining commenced at Force Crag during the fifthteenth century. Today, remains of this past extensive industry lie abandoned on the mountainsides and are now considered to be an iconic reflection of the Lake District's industrial past. They blend in well with other iconic 'industrial' structures such as stone walls, drove roads and fell farms that exist throughout the district. For many years now industrial historians have studied these workings and also the lives of the skilled miners who spent their careers high on Lake District mountainsides, working the veins. Concern for the loss of many of these ancient sites has developed over recent years. In 1989 a report produced by local industrial archaeologists highlighted a list of twenty-seven former mining sites on the fells considered to be of such exceptional importance to the history of the Lake District communities that they should be given future protection. Many of these sites have been included in this definitive illustrated guide.

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Information

Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781445664668
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. Barrow Lead Mine, Newlands
  4. Bonsor Workings, Coniston Copper Mine
  5. Carrock Wolfram Mine, Mosedale
  6. Eagle Crag Lead Mine, Grisedale
  7. Force Crag Mine, Coledale
  8. Fornside Copper Mine, St John’s in the Vale
  9. Goldscope Copper and Lead Mine, Newlands
  10. Greenburn Copper Mine, Little Langdale
  11. Greenhead Gill Iron Mine, Grasmere
  12. Greenside Lead Mine, Glenridding
  13. Hartsop Hall Lead Mine, Brothers Water
  14. Hawkrigg Copper Mine and Dr Booth’s Level, Coniston
  15. Nab Gill Haematite Mine, Eskdale
  16. Paddy End Copper Workings, Coniston Copper Mine
  17. Roughton Gill Mines
  18. Seathwaite Copper Mine, Duddon Valley
  19. Stoneycroft Lead Mine, Newlands
  20. Threlkeld Lead and Zinc Mines (Woodend and Gategill Mines)
  21. Tilberthwaite Copper Mine, Coniston
  22. Tongue Gill Iron Mines, Grasmere
  23. Wythburn (Helvellyn) Lead Mine, Thirlmere
  24. Yewthwaite Lead Mine, Newlands
  25. About the Authors