Ashton's Mine


Lead Mine

Worked from 1730s to 1890

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot


Peak District
Castleton
53.34127, -1.758078
SK 1621 8274
Private Land
180m
#3,447

Shaft sunk 240feet theough shales and toadstone into limestone.

Publications (6)

  • Barnatt, John (2002); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-2 Win - How Grove Excavation Report; 40 pages (1-40)
  • Barnatt, John (2012); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-4 Win - Silence Mine, Grindlow; 55 pages (1-55)
  • Barnatt, John and Huston, Kieron and Mallon, Dave and Newman, Rebekah et al (2013); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-6 Win - The Lead Legacy - An Updated Inventory of Important Metal and Gangue Mining Sites in the Peak District, The; 112 pages (1-112)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2010); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-5 Sum - Geological Setting of the Lead Mines in the Northern Part of the White Peak, The; 48 pages (1-48)
  • Heathcote, Chris (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - Surface Remains of the Pindale Area, Castleton, Derbyshire; 7 pages (35-41)
  • Walters, S.G. and Ineson, P.R. (1980); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-6 Aut - Mineralization within the Igneous Rocks of the South Pennine Orefield; 11 pages (315-325)

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