Henfwlch


Lead and Copper Mine
Worked from 1750 to 1890

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Sep 10th, 2025 by BertyBasset


Mid Wales
Nant y Moch
52.478302, -3.8608091
SN 7372 8834
Open Access
360m
600t
#472

600m long adit with winzes.

Year Activity
c1800 Job Sheldon & Co reputadly made very good profit working Hafan. At the east part of the sett, they also worked the same lode as Henfwlch.
1850 Mining Company of Wales start deep adit driven under, and well beyond Hafan and under Henfwlch.
1853 Adit continued by Hafan and Henfwlch Co with Chairman James Stride, and MIchael Barbery managing operations. Stride’s Shaft hit very hard rock, with only 2ft sinking a week being achieved.
1854 With no improvement in Hafan or Henfwlch, company folds.
1856 Both mines working under a Captain Hughes. Down to 30fm below adit at Carriston’s Shaft
1864 Another company takes possession. Good ore found,
1867 By 1867 600 tons of lead ore sold - mainly from Henfwlch.
1889/90 Mines opened sporadically over previous years, 17 tons sold 89/90

Access Agreement between CAL and NRW/WG was terminated in 2022. Documentation for this lapsed agreement available here
https://buddlepit.co.uk/mine-explorer/Library/Library.html?doc=20963

Publications (20)

  • (1848); BGS - Memoirs Vol II, Part II; 425 pages
  • (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
  • (1997); WMS Newsletter Issue 36 Jun; 8 pages
  • (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 45 Dec; 14 pages
  • (2002); WMS Newsletter Issue 47 Oct; 28 pages
  • Anon; Hafan-Henfwlch; 1 pages
  • Anon; Henfwlch Waterfall Stope Sketch; 1 pages
  • Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 46,48
  • Fellows, Roy (1997); Henfwlch mine explored
  • Fellows, Roy; Henfwlch Mine Explored; 2 pages
  • Foster-Smith, J.R.; NMRS (1979); British Mining 12 - Mines of Cardiganshire, The; ISBN 0 901450 14 6; pp.33.
  • Hall, G.W. (2014); Welsh Mines & Mining - Metal Mining in Mid Wales 1822-1921; 131 pages
  • Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1990); British Mining 40 - Darren Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 36 7; pp.7.
  • Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Cardiganshire - Its Mines and Miners; 52 pages
  • Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
  • NMRS; British Mining 100 - Memoirs 2015; pp.61,63.
  • NMRS; British Mining 80 - Memoirs 2006; pp.67-68.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1979; pp.2.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1977; pp.6.
  • Shaw, R.P. (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-3 Sum - Bwlch Glas Lead Mine, Cardiganshire; 6 pages (187-192)

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