This is both the name of a sett and of a mine at the north end of that sett.
The land was owned by the Earls of Tankerville and leases were known to have been granted from at least 1785, and possible earlier, to John Lawrence (II or possibly III). The mine remained under Lawrence’s empire until the early 1830s.
Publications (4)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXIII - Lead & Zinc: Pre-Carboniferous Shropshire & North Wales; 111 pages
- Adams, D.R. (1963); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 02-2 Oct - Survey of the South Shropshire Lead Mining Area Part 1; 6 pages (105-110)
- Sarjeant, William A.S. (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-3 May - Pyromorphite from the Mines of West Shropshire; 3 pages (175-177)
- Shropshire Caving and Mining Club (1979); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-4 Oct - An Attempt to Save the Snailbeach Mining Area from Land Reclamation; 4 pages (208-211)
