Castell Engine Shaft

aka Westminster Castell Engine Shaft


Lead Mine

Worked from 19C

Jan 1st, 2024 from CPAT by Buddle-Bot

Feb 26th, 2025 by BertyBasset



North Wales
Eryrys
53.1079369, -3.192965
SJ 2024 5742
Private Land
345m
#2,032


The Cornish Pumping Engine at Castell Engine Shaft appears to have also served Shaft Newydd, which was a whim shaft. Little evidence remains to definitively identify the Castell Engine site at SJ 2020 5740 or Shaft Newydd to the west of it.

The site is currently farmed at Castell Farm, and the engine house site remains as a small area of waste on the west side of the road that runs north to Eryrys.

A Cornish pumping engine was recorded at Castell Shaft, while Shaft Newydd is associated with a whim, as noted in the CRO AB/40 documents.



Publications (1)

  • (1921); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XIX - Lead and Zinc: in Carboniferous of North Wales; 169 pages





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