Snailbeach Lead Mine
Snailbeach Lead mine visit in Shropshire
Underground tour in Snailbeach Mine, Shropshire, England, September 2019.
Snailbeach Mine. The unfenced site is owned by Shropshire Council and managed on a day to day basis by Shropshire Mines Trust. In its heyday it was one of the biggest and richest lead mines in the country.
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First Drone Flight over Snailbeach Lead Mines
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Snailbeach Lead Mine Shropshire
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it was once one of the biggest and richest lead mines in the country.
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Snailbeach 2019
one of England best preserved lead mines.
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SNAILBEACH 1ST MINE
Welcome 1 and all to the snail beach mine tour. In this video i'll only be showing the 1st mine, or the £2 guided tour lucky for you I went on the £5 tour so the 2nd mine will be up soon
Snail Beach Lead Mine Shropshire
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Snailbeach lead mine Perkins Level
A walk around the Lead mine, the mine is open a few days of the year for the public to be taken down by some great cave/mine experts.
Really wonderful tours and great to see some parts of the local area that are normal off limits.
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SnailBeach Shropshire Hills
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SHROPSHIRE - Stories From The Hill - Above Snailbeach
The recordings of the stories come from a media booth at Blakemoorgate Cottages which are above the village of Snailbeach, which are themselves above Hope Valley
I believe the site at Blakemoorgate Cottages is managed by Natural England. The cottages themselves are not resided in, but on a few days each year are open for people to look around inside
The stories are narrated by Val Littlehayles and Richard Beaumond
Some information, together with a map can be found at this page (of interest are The Hollies nature reserve with all the aged holly bushes, which are passed on the way out to the cottages) ....
From that page, further info here ....
'Facilities and opening times
The settlement can be visited at any time.
Information about the site and a sound box
with extracts from the book ‘Once upon a
Hill’ can be found in the Cattle Byre. There
are also composting toilets.
The cottages are open on the first Sunday
of each month between April and October
11am – 3pm. There are two cottages,
volunteers to welcome you and a roaring
fire to warm you on cold days'
Some other information on the internet ....
This page isout of date, but here it is anyway ....
- Tony
Exploring an Abandoned Lead Mine l UK Exploration l Abandoned Mine
Exploring an Abandoned Lead Mine l UK Exploration l Abandoned Mine
The first record of mining at Cononley dates from July 1532 when Christopher Aske leased all the mines on the wastes and moors of the Manor of Cononley for 20 years. The wording of the lease suggests that mining had already taken place at an earlier date, but had been abandoned by the time of this lease.
The main vein of ore was in Mason's shaft (the main shaft). Between 1848 and 1863 the Cononley mines produced between 329 and 350 tons of lead every year. At the Height of the Mine, 1700 Miners worked the mines. The main period of working was between 1825 and 1882 when the mine was worked for lead ore. Hall and Co, lead merchants who had previous experience with lead mining in the North Pennines and Arkengarthdale, are recorded as working on both the Glusburn and Cononley royalties from 1825. They abandoned the project by 1830, as at this time the price of lead fell dramatically and it is suggested that this rather than the geology is the reason for the Hall's failure. Work began again in 1836, by George Gill & Co, and after 17 months and 200m later the main vein was reached. This work was all undertaken directly for the Duke of Devonshire who had inherited the Cononley mineral rights from the Dukes of Burlington. For the next two decades further development work continued with shafts and levels driven to fully explore and exploit the main vein. The mine, is noteworthy as being the most southerly of the lead mines of northwest Yorkshire. The mine was worked by shafts and adits serving seven levels, the deepest being 45 fathoms. Mining the lead ore became more expensive with the influx of cheaper lean from Spain, meaning the mine eventually closed, but over the last 100 years the mine has been reopened in the search for a new vein of Lead ore until its eventually demolished in the 1960's. The main shaft building and wheel house still stand today as a reminder of a by-gone era
After the mine closed a market developed for barytes (Barium Sulphate), which was the principal mineral present in the Cononley veins and had previously been discarded. It had previously been thought that the mine remained closed until the 1920s but evidence found underground suggests that some work may have occurred earlier. This operation run by Edward Murgatroyd to recover barytes from the tips as well as from new underground workings was not successful and was abandoned by 1927 when it was then taken over by J.H. Clay and run until the mine was mothballed in 1933 and finally closed in 1937. The surface tips continued to be worked sporadically through to the 1950's when some underground work was done between 1957 and 1958 by McKecnie Bros. of Widnes, after which the mine was finally abandoned. An application was made to reopen the mine in the 1980's but planning permission was refused.
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