History
1737 Isaac Thornhill 1751-1768 Elias Thornhill 1769-1807 John Thornhill 1808-1817 Christopher Thornhill 1819-1832 Robert Fell & Co. 1833-1836 Alcock’s & Co. 1841-1879 Duke of Devonshire
Publications (15)
(1952); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol IV - Fluorspar; 162 pages Gill, M.C. & Burt, R.; NMRS (2003); British Mining 72 - Mines of Yorkshire, The; ISBN 0901450 56 1; pp.114-116. Gill, M.C. (1988); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-4 - History of Customary Mining Law at Grassington, The; 7 pages (206-212) Gill, M.C. (2010); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-6 Win - John Barratt and the Grassington Mines 1818-1834; 9 pages (10-18) Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1987); British Mining 33 - Orkshire & Lancashire Lead Mine, The; ISBN 0901450 32 4; pp.62. Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1993); British Mining 46 - Grassington Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 39 1; pp.10,20-21,24-26,34-38,41-42,46,71-72,74-76,89-94,98-105,112,116,143,145,149. Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1998); British Mining 60 - Greenhow Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 49 9; pp.118. Gill, Mike (1990); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-1 Sum - Three Eighteenth Centuryt Mining Disputes at Grassington, Yorkshire; 10 pages (25-34) Gill, Mike (2004); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-4&5 - Water Resources on Grassington Moor, The; 5 pages (16-20) NMRS (1980); British Mining 13 - Mines of Grassington Moor & Wharfedale, The; ISBN 0 901450 16 2; pp.21,28. NMRS; British Mining 67 - Memoirs 2000; pp.49-50. NMRS; British Mining 88 - Memoirs 2009; pp.102-103,106-107. NMRS; Memoirs 1968; pp.4. NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.21. NMRS; Newsletter Aug/2005; pp.7.
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Sites within 2km (232)
Bentham Mine - 58m Cottingley - 100m Old Riddle - 143m Weather Gleam Mine - 158m Bagshaw's Pitmoss - 161m Bagshaw & Co's North Shaft - 165m Bagshaw & Co's South Shaft - 171m New Moss Shaft - 173m Galloping Vein - 178m Black Rake - 183m Roads - 196m Ridley Old Work Vein - 197m Wilkinson Pits - 197m Ridley Old Work - 236m Six Meers Vein - 249m Mangham Three Meers - 259m Black Vein - 274m Fourteen Meers Third Shaft - 278m Gregory - 284m Wickham Allotment - 284m Moss Mine - 289m Slanter Vein - 290m Sun Gregory - 291m Sixty Nine Yards Vein - 317m Rushbob Shaft - 335m Moss New Shaft - 350m High Winding House - 353m Jones Shaft - 363m Ringleton Vein - 363m Friendship Mine - 369m Lupton's Shaft - 372m Coalgrovebeck Vein - 374m Old Moss Vein - 375m Somers Shaft - 382m Rushbob Vein - 384m Engine Shaft - 384m Brunt's Shaft - 388m Coalgrovebeck Engine Shaft - 389m Dog Kennels - 403m Dry Vein - 411m Coalgrovebeck Sough - 420m Benjamin Airey's Shaft - 426m Disputed Vein - 429m Coalgrovebeck Timber House - 448m Lee's Vein - 450m Middle Vein - 451m Dead Shaft - 452m Little Glory Vein - 455m Henry's Shaft - 455m South Allotment - 456m Run Shaft - 462m Cavendish Vein - 463m Old Glory Vein - 467m Low Ringleton Shaft - 467m Eddy's Vein - 469m Glory Mine - 476m Taylor's Shaft - 479m Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (c) - 515m Coalgrovebeck Dressing Mill - 517m Cupola Smelt Mill Chimney - 518m White Hillock - 520m Derbyshire Founder Engine Shaft - 523m Dales Chemicals Dressing Mill - 524m Cross Vein - 528m West Peru Shaft - 532m New Peru Shaft - 546m Tennant's Shaft - 552m Founder Vein - 554m Ripley Vein - 560m High Ringleton Shaft - 561m Rodgers Vein - 571m Currey Shaft - 571m Fourteen Meers Mine - 581m Ten Meers Vein - 588m Crosscut Vein - 594m Coalgrovebeck Pits - 612m Count House - 616m Standfast Vein - 623m Founder Shaft - 624m Cottingham Shaft - 635m Brake House Wheel - 649m Old Turf Pits Shaft - 653m Old Turf Pits Dressing Floor - 660m Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (b) - 673m Ripon or Ripon End - 674m Chatsworth Shaft - 677m Ringleton Footway Shaft - 681m Lime Trial - 685m Turf Pits Footway - 686m Alexandra Vein - 694m Old Ripon Vein - 710m Cavern Vein Shaft - 715m Bacco Rake - 749m Whim Shaft - 762m West Turf Pits Shaft - 809m New Ripon Lead Mine - 816m Old Ripon Shaft - 836m Musgrave's Shaft - 840m Bycliffe Bottom Level - 842m Burnt Ling Sun Vein - 850m Burnt Ling Vein - 868m Old Peru Shaft - 871m London Vein - 877m Sandhaw Reservoir - 879m Sharper Vein - 885m Richard's Shaft - 889m Peru Mine - 889m Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (a) - 890m Brown Bycliffe Vein - 890m Bycliffe Mine - 898m Deve Vein - 899m York Vein - 902m Shaw's Shaft - 912m Castaway Mine - 915m New Ripon Vein - 917m Beckwith Vein - 921m Slate Pit Rigg Quarry - 943m Settling Pond - 948m Bycliffe Top Level - 948m Legrends Footway Shaft - 950m Settling Pond - 957m High Smelt Mill - 968m Piper Plet Mine - 977m Smithy - 981m Bank Head Quarry - 982m Cupola Shaft - 982m Moorgate - 997m John Young Gate - 1,003m Wash Vein - 1,004m Deep Cut - 1,004m Morley Turf Pits - 1,006m Moor Smelt Mill - 1,009m Cupola Smelt Mill - 1,009m Bycliffe Vein - 1,011m Legerins Vein - 1,027m Piper Plet Vein - 1,028m Bycliffe Two Meers - 1,029m Lambert's Shaft - 1,052m Piper Plet Building - 1,072m Murgatroyd's Shaft - 1,073m Castaway Dressing Floor - 1,083m Hulk Shaft - 1,101m Bycliffe Shallow Adit - 1,106m Simpson's Shaft - 1,111m Sword & Pistol Mine - 1,117m Beast Tongue Ground - 1,123m Parker's Shaft - 1,135m Grizedale Edge - 1,138m Bycliffe East Ten Meers - 1,158m Grizedale Head - 1,162m Legrams Shaft - 1,166m Rodwell's Shaft - 1,166m Blow Beck Mine - 1,202m Joy's Shaft - 1,224m Flatting Vein - 1,227m Green Plat - 1,232m Legrams New Shaft - 1,233m Smiler - 1,266m Chelsey Vein - 1,274m Lord Nelson's Level - 1,297m Bycliffe House - 1,313m Freeman Bycliffe Vein - 1,313m Jacob Bradley - 1,316m Moorcock Vein - 1,319m Legrams Vein - 1,339m Smiling Fancy Vein - 1,348m Frankland Fold Mine - 1,361m Pikehaw Bottom Mine - 1,400m Bycliffe New Shaft - 1,447m How Gill Level - 1,452m Chelsey Mine - 1,471m Jones Level - 1,484m Folly Vein - 1,491m Greenwich Vein - 1,495m Groove Gill - 1,495m James Ripley's Level - 1,516m Cockbur Wheelpit - 1,523m Cockbur Wheel House - 1,529m Cockbur Level - 1,529m Mitchell's Shaft - 1,546m Mitchell's Footway Shaft - 1,555m Cockburchase Vein - 1,558m Cockbur Dressing Floor - 1,564m Cockbur - 1,565m Cockbur Engine Shaft - 1,574m Whirler Rake - 1,599m Blow Gill Shafts (a) - 1,607m Cook's Shaft - 1,640m Bolton Gill Top Level - 1,641m Scar End - 1,645m Bolton Gill Engine Shaft - 1,656m Gray Vein Shaft - 1,666m Pump Rigg - 1,715m Blow Gill Shafts (b) - 1,719m Three Footed Stool Mine - 1,744m Beevers Wheel House - 1,751m Grove Sty - 1,757m Black Drift - 1,758m Ellerbeck Dressing Floor - 1,781m Beever's Engine Shaft - 1,791m Green Bycliffe Vein - 1,794m Union Shaft - 1,797m Beevers Footway Shaft - 1,802m Power Rope Turn Gear (b) - 1,813m Beevers Footway Shaft - 1,817m Green Garden - 1,826m Fidler Plot Vein - 1,829m Stool Mine - 1,833m Blue Level - 1,855m Bolton Gill Wheel Pit - 1,861m Nixon's Shaft - 1,861m Palfrey Mine - 1,866m Stool Vein - 1,868m Grassington - 1,872m Simpson's Shaft - 1,906m Yarnbury Wash Dam - 1,921m Yarnbury Winding Wheel House - 1,923m Bottle Level - 1,926m Low Grinding Mill - 1,944m South Grimes Groves Vein - 1,945m Fiddler Plet Mine - 1,946m Mason's Shaft - 1,951m Bowden's Shaft - 1,953m Sloper Vein - 1,955m Cricket Stool Vein - 1,959m Sun Yarnbury Shaft - 1,959m Inclined Plane - 1,968m Yarnbury Railway - 1,968m Green Grooves - 1,978m Grimear - 1,987m Cricket - 1,988m Green Bycliffe Mine - 1,998m
