Walker's Shaft

aka South Minera Walker's Shaft


Lead, Zinc, and Silver Mine

Worked from 1860s to 1913

Jan 1st, 2024 from CPAT by Buddle-Bot

Feb 26th, 2025 by BertyBasset



North Wales
Esclusham Mountain
53.0429306, -3.115634
SJ 2530 5010
Open Access
440m
#2,015


Engine house at SJ 2035 5020 has been reduced to its foundation level, with only a large concrete platform remaining to the northwest, which appears to be a later addition. Walker’s Shaft, located just north of the engine house ruins, is surrounded by spoil tips and seems to have housed a horizontal winding engine. Some processing structures remain at the site, including square ore bins on the sides of Walker’s Shaft, which would have been used for storing and sorting extracted material.

Other structural remnants include the stone foundations of a three-room rectangular building at SJ 2530 5020, where an iron plate embedded in one of the walls suggests the presence of a chimney, possibly indicating a smithy. Additionally, the remains of a partially rendered building at SJ 2525 5015 suggest this could have been the agent’s house.



The South Minera Vein extends southeast from the Pool Park Sett, where it was worked by Walker’s Shaft at SJ 2530 5020 and Dixon’s Shaft at SJ 2575 4975. This vein continued as the Gomerian Drainage Level, which is marked by a series of adit shafts. Eventually, these workings were incorporated into the Minera Mountain Company’s operations, which persisted until 1913. Historical records, including the 1899 schedule of buildings for the Minera Mountain Sett, list an agent’s house, an office with outbuildings, an engine house, a cabin, and a stable at Walker’s Shaft







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