Description
Despite its location on the west bank of the Tyne north of Garrigill, Dunham inexplicably categorizes this mine within the Nent Valley area. It features two accessible levels, both reaching the same limited area of flats in the Tyne Bottom Limestone. Popular among collectors and outdoor adventure groups alike, the site is intersected by the Pennine Way long-distance footpath, which traverses its fairly extensive dumps.
History
1771-1798 Earl of Carlisle & Co. 1798-1881 London Lead Company
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Publications (13)
(1990); CATMHS - Newsletter 027-September; 25 pages (1990); CATMHS - Newsletter 027-September; 25 pages Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1993); British Mining 47 - Mines of Alston Moor, The; ISBN 0901450 40 5; pp.125,154-155. Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1996); British Mining 56 - Weardale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 46 4; pp.48. McAnelly, David (transcribed) (2012); London Lead Company Northern Mines Report Book 1806 to 1820; 135 pages NMRS; British Mining 11 - Memoirs 1979; pp.7. NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.51. NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1994; pp.2. NMRS; Newsletter Aug/2011; pp.5. NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1981; pp.4. Sopwith, T (1893); Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale & Teesdale, An Account of The; 207 pages Wallace, William (1861); Deposition of Lead Ore In Veins; Alston Moor; 331 pages Wallace, William (1890); AlstonMoor; Its Pastoral People Mines and Miners; 256 pages
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Sites within 2km (55)
Tyne Bottom High Level - 51m Tyne Bottom Low Level - 57m Dryburn - Shaft - 260m Pump Shaft - 344m Tyne Bottom Pumping Shaft - 366m Fletcheras - Level - 385m Bentyfield - Beldy Level - 438m Garrigill - Beldy Level - 447m Hundybridge - 759m Fletcheras Low Level - 766m Bentyfield - Bunkershill Level - 927m Cowperdykeheads - High Level - 938m Fletcheras - 1,000m Hundybridge High Level - 1,021m Bentyfield - Level - 1,032m Fletcheras - Level - 1,064m Black Syke - Level - 1,068m Cowperdykeheads - Level - 1,088m Fletcheras - Whimsey Shaft - 1,154m Cowperdykeheads - Level - 1,174m Garrigill - Level - 1,287m Garrigill - Whitesyke Waste Heaps - 1,294m Black Syke - 1,312m Crag Green Level - 1,324m Old Groves Shaft - 1,333m Old Groves - 1,353m Bentyfield - Whitesyke Level ? - 1,370m Brown Gill Low Level - 1,396m Fletcheras - Level - 1,407m Brown Level - 1,423m Clay Level - 1,436m Whiteside - 1,450m Bentyfield - Level - 1,460m Cowperdykeheads - High Shieldhill Level - 1,463m Bentyfield High Level - 1,486m Cowper Sun Vein Level - 1,490m Cowper Dyke Heads Level - 1,504m Bentyfield - Clay Level - 1,518m Crag Green - Crag Quarry Hazle Level - 1,522m Fletcheras Rake - 1,584m Crag Level - 1,675m East Bentyfield Sun Vein - 1,764m Black Syke - Level - 1,778m Bentyfield - 1,786m Bentyfield Level - 1,788m Black Syke - Level - 1,800m Black Syke - 1,806m Bentyfield - Colonel's Level - 1,819m Nattrass Gill - 1,873m Slaggy Burn - 1,909m Dry Burn Level - 1,912m Crossgill - 1,922m Scar Ends Level - 1,922m Copper Hazle Level - 1,933m Flinty Fell - Souther Gill Workings & Whimsey Shaft - 1,998m
