Nentforce Level


Lead Mine
Worked from 1776

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot



Northern Pennines
Alston
54.814903, -2.438159
NY 7194 4676
Private Land
290m
#16,017


Publications (18)

  • (1913); Lead Mines & Works of the Vielle Montagne Zinc Company; 8 pages
  • (1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXV - Lead & Zinc: Northumberland and Alston Moor; 128 pages
  • Barnatt, John (2014); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-2 Win - Coal Mining near Buxton - Thatch Marsh, Orchard Common and Goyt's Moss; 91 pages (17-107)
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Nenthead & Tynedale Lead & Zinc Company Limited. Plan Showing Nenthead, Priorsdale & Garrigill Mining Properties Including Levels, Veins, &c.; 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.16,46,49,57,66,94,98,152,158-160.
  • Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1995); British Mining 54 - Lead Mine Waggons; ISBN 0901450 45 6; pp.40.
  • Forster, Westgarth (1821); Section of Strata, Newcastle To Cross Fell; 496 pages
  • NMRS; British Mining 23 - Memoirs 1983; pp.59.
  • NMRS; British Mining 5 - Memoirs 1977; pp.41.
  • NMRS; British Mining 63 - Memoirs 1999; pp.74,100.
  • NMRS; British Mining 69 - Memoirs 2001; pp.55.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.47,52.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1983; pp.6-7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2002; pp.4.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1983; pp.7.
  • Sopwith, T (1893); Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale & Teesdale, An Account of The; 207 pages
  • Tucker, D.G.; Ind Hist: Lead Mining and Smelting especially Pennines; 7 pages





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