Nenthead Mines


Lead and Zinc Mine
Worked until 1922

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Dec 15th, 2024 by BertyBasset


Northern Pennines
Nenthead
54.7861023, -2.3401949
NY 7822 4352
Private Land
447m
#17,205

1883-1895 Nenthead & Tynedale Lead & Zinc Co. Ltd 1896-1921 Vieille Montagne Zinc Co.

Publications (43)

  • (1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXV - Lead & Zinc: Northumberland and Alston Moor; 128 pages
  • Bagenal, T.B.; NMRS (1999); British Mining 62 - Miners & Farmers; ISBN 0901450 50 2; pp.9.
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Nenthead & Tynedale Lead & Zinc Company Limited. Plan Showing Nenthead, Priorsdale & Garrigill Mining Properties Including Levels, Veins, &c.; 1 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Nenthead - Coalcleugh (east); 1 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Nenthead - Coalcleugh (west Sheet).; 1 pages
  • Critchley, Martin F. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-1 Sum - History and Workings of the Nenthead Mines, Cumbria, The; 50 pages (1-50)
  • Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1993); British Mining 47 - Mines of Alston Moor, The; ISBN 0901450 40 5; pp.15-16,26-29,54-86,153,159-161,167,177.
  • Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1996); British Mining 56 - Weardale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 46 4; pp.26-27,37.
  • Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (2000); British Mining 65 - Allendale, Tynedale & Derwent Lead Mines; ISBN 0901450 52 9; pp.32,74.
  • Fairbairn, Raymond A.; NMRS (2005); British Mining 77 - Mines of Upper Teesdale, The; ISBN 0901450 59 6; pp.15.
  • Moreton, Stephen; NMRS (2015); British Mining 99 - Lead Mines of Tyndrum, The; ISBN 0901450 7 15; pp.101.
  • NMRS (1971); Memoirs Vol2, No.1; pp.30.
  • NMRS; British Mining 11 - Memoirs 1979; pp.6-10.
  • NMRS; British Mining 37 - Memoirs 1988; pp.30.
  • NMRS; British Mining 5 - Memoirs 1977; pp.24-27,30,38,40,41-45.
  • NMRS; British Mining 61 - Memoirs 1998; pp.64-66,119-128.
  • NMRS; British Mining 63 - Memoirs 1999; pp.63-100.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.39-41.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1996; pp.8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1997; pp.7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Dec/1986; pp.3.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Dec/1996; pp.10.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Dec/2002; pp.8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1982; pp.2.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1983; pp.6-7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1989; pp.7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1997; pp.6-7,8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/2006; pp.8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/2007; pp.7-8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/2014; pp.6-7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1981; pp.8.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1991; pp.9.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2002; pp.3-4.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2007; pp.4,11.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Nov/1988; pp.5.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Nov/2013; pp.10-11.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1984; pp.2-3.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1987; pp.2-5.
  • Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-6 Win - Comparative Archaeology of Tin and Lead Dressing in Britain during the Nineteenth Century, The; 32 pages (316-347)
  • Pirt, W.K. & Dodds, J.M.; NMRS (2002); British Mining 70 - Lead Mining in the Derwent Valley; ISBN 0901450 55 3; pp.18.
  • Tyson, L.O.; NMRS (1995); British Mining 53 - Arkengarthdale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 44 8; pp.86.
  • Wallace, William (1861); Deposition of Lead Ore In Veins; Alston Moor; 331 pages
  • Wallace, William (1890); AlstonMoor; Its Pastoral People Mines and Miners; 256 pages

Select a theme