Mill Close Mine


Lead Mine

Worked from 1684 to 1940

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Dec 11th, 2024 by BertyBasset



Peak District
Wensley
53.1527176, -1.615886
SK 2579 6180
Private Land
161m
#3,741


Publications (72)

  • (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVI - Lead & Zinc Ores or Durham, Yorkshire & Derbyshire; 126 pages
  • (1959); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 01-1 Dec - Mill Close Mine, Water Grove Mine, Lathkill Dale Mine; 14 pages
  • Baker, F.H. (1996); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-1 Sum - Lea Lead Smelter in 1936, The; 5 pages (31-35)
  • Band, Stuart R. (1983); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-5 Sum - Steam Engines of Gregory Mine, Ashover, The; 27 pages (269-295)
  • Barnatt, John (2009); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-4 Win - Lead Legacy Recent Archaeological Research and Conservation, The; 18 pages (1-18)
  • 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)
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Matlock District Vertical Sections; 1 pages
  • Bird, R.H. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Notes on the Derbyshire Map Surveyed and Produced by Peter Perez Burdett, 1762 to 1767; 7 pages (75-81)
  • Bird, Richard (1972); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 05-1 Apr - Recollections of a Mill Close Miner; 4 pages (50-53)
  • Brown, Ivor J. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Mine Fatalities in the Derbyshire Metalliferous Mining Area, 1874 to 1939; 8 pages (59-66)
  • Brown, Ivor J. (1970); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-4 Oct - Magpie Mine and the Garlick Family 1881-1930; 13 pages (324-336)
  • Brown, Ivor J. and Willies, Lynn (2002); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-1 Sum - Millclose Mine at Cowley Knoll, Wensley; 11 pages (60-70)
  • Buckley, R. and Howard, M. (1995); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-6 Win - Greensward Mines and Its Pumps, Monyash, Derbyshire; 14 pages (68-81)
  • Burt, Roger and Atkinson, Michael (1976); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-3 Apr - Mineral Statistics, The; 4 pages (164-167)
  • Ferguson, F.C. (1995); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-5 Sum - Visit to Millclose Mine in 1934, A; 2 pages (33-34)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - Geology of the Matlock Mines - A Review, The; 32 pages (1-32)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2004); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-6 Win - Geology of the Lead Mines around the Stanton Syncline; 26 pages (1-26)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2014); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-1 Sum - Geological Setting of the Old Lead Mines of Ashover and Crich, Derbyshire, The; 26 pages (1-26)
  • Ford, Trevor D. and Sarjeant, William A.S. and Smith, Michael E. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-1 - Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire, The; 40 pages (16-55)
  • Foster-Smith, J. (1987); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-1 - Personal Memoir of Millclose Mine in 1939, A; 22 pages (24-45)
  • Gould, Robert (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-1 May - Activities of the London Lead Companies in Wirksworth - A Brief Summary, The; 3 pages (28-30)
  • Gould, Robert (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-1 May - Capital Formation in the Wirksworth Lead Mining Industry - Part 2; 7 pages (21-27)
  • Gould, Robert (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-2 Oct - Visit to Blobber Mine, Wirksworth, in the 1920s, A; 3 pages (93-95)
  • Gregory, F.E. (1992); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-5 Sum - Ancient Mining Customs used in England Today; 2 pages (239-240)
  • Gregory, Keith (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - 20th Century Lead Mining - Mill Close Mine; 3 pages (34-36)
  • Gregory, Neville (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Jack Beck and Masson Hill - Tribute to a Man and a Mountain; 5 pages (59-63)
  • Hind, David J. (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Davis Derby - A History of Engineering; 8 pages (1-8)
  • James, Jonathan Peter and Foster, Adrian (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-5 Sum - Tramways and Locomotves at 20th Century Mines in the Peak District; 18 pages (58-75)
  • Kirkham, Nellie (1975); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-2 Oct - Washing of Lead Ore in Derbyshire during the Nineteenth Century, The; 11 pages (53-63)
  • Lunn, Patricia E. and Rogers, P.J. and Ixer, R. (1974); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 05-6 Oct - Notes on Bravoite in Derbyshire; 3 pages (332-334)
  • Nash, D.A. (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-2 Oct - Anecdotes on Mill Close Mine; 2 pages (67-68)
  • Naylor, Peter (1979); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-3 Mar - Engines at Mill Close Mine - 1920 to 1939, The; 4 pages (165-168)
  • Naylor, Peter (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-2 Win - Pumps at Millclose Mine, The; 4 pages (123-126)
  • Naylor, Peter (1987); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-1 - Hopping Mine, Upperwood, Matlock Bath; 3 pages (1-3)
  • Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1992); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-5 Sum - Gazetteer of Tin and Lead Ore Dressing Sites in Great Britain; 3 pages (261-263)
  • Pckin, John (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-4 Dec - Watts Shaft Engine House, Old Millclose Mine; 3 pages (240-242)
  • Pearce, A. and Ludditt, R. and Straw, M. and Taylor, W. and Watson, J. and Watson, R. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-2 Win - Mouldridge Mine, Pikehall, Derbyshire; 15 pages (108-122)
  • Porter, Lindsay and Kirkham, Len (1998); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-6 Win - Ore Dressing in the Manifold Valley, Staffordshire; 9 pages (40-48)
  • Quirk, David G. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-1 - Origin of the Peak District Orefield; 12 pages (4-15)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1980); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-5 - Earliest Lead-Mine Soughs in Derbyshire, The; 74 pages (241-314)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1981); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-2 Aut - Development of Mining and Drainage in the Wensley, Winster and Elton areas, The; 42 pages (109-150)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-2 Win - Derbyshire Lead Mining and Early Geological Concepts; 50 pages (51-100)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1966); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-1 Aug - List of Soughs of the Derbyshire Lead Mines; 42 pages (1-42)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1968); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-6 - Kirkby Lead Mining Manuscript Collection, The; 5 pages (357-361)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Charles Henry Millington, 1878 to 1968 - An Appreciation; 5 pages (53-57)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-2 - Soughs of Derbyshire Lead Mines - Supplementary List, The; 17 pages (119-135)
  • Robey, John A. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Early Mining Techniques in the Peak District; 3 pages (49-51)
  • Sarjeant, William A.S. (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-3 May - Formation of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, The; 6 pages (185-190)
  • Sarjeant, William A.S. (1991); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-3 Sum - Leslie Owain Ford - Mineral Collector and Joint Founder of the Peak District Mines Historical Society; 3 pages (141-143)
  • Saxton, John (1971); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-5 Jun - Letter about Mill Close Mine in 1918; 3 pages (375-377)
  • Slack R. (1983); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-5 Sum - The Slack Family - Brassington Lead Miners, The; 14 pages (301-314)
  • Slack, R. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-2 Win - Trouble and Strife - The Wirksworth Lead Industry in the Mid-17th Century; 10 pages (38-47)
  • Slack, Ron (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-5 Sum - Farmers versus Miners - A Case of Pollution; 4 pages (29-32)
  • 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)
  • Warrier, D. (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-4 Dec - Examination and Survey of Bage Mine; 17 pages (243-259)
  • Warriner, D.J. and Russ, K.D. and Eyre, J.D. and Ford, T.D. and Rieuwerts, J.H. (2000); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-3 Sum - Old Mill Close Mine, Wensley; 79 pages (1-79)
  • Williams, C.J. (1968); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-6 - Lead Mining Documents in the Derbyshire Record Office; 5 pages (323-327)
  • Williams, David (2003); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-3 Sum - An Attempt in 1935-7 to Rework Coalpithole Mine, Peak Forest, Derbyshire; 4 pages (22-25)
  • Willies, L. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Cupola Lead Smelting Sites in Derbyshire, 1737 to 1900; 19 pages (97-115)
  • Willies, L. (1979); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-3 Mar - Technical Development in Derbyshire Lead Mining, 1700-1880; 35 pages (117-151)
  • Willies, Lynn (1977); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-5 May - John Taylor in Derbyshire 1839-1851 - Part 2; 15 pages (218-232)
  • Willies, Lynn (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-3 Sum - John Fairburn - Stationer and Mining Entrepreneur; 7 pages (159-165)
  • Willies, Lynn (1986); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-5 Sum - Prosperity and Decline in Derbyshire Lead Mining; 32 pages (251-282)
  • Willies, Lynn (1988); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-3 - Working of the Derbyshire Lead Mining Customs in the 18th and 19th Centuries, The; 14 pages (146-159)
  • Willies, Lynn (1990); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-1 Sum - Derbyshire Lead Smelting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 19 pages (1-19)
  • Willies, Lynn (1995); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-6 Win - Winster and the Mill Close Strikes 1917 to 1919; 13 pages (25-37)
  • Willies, Lynn (1996); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-1 Sum - Millclose Mine Strikes - A Postscript; 2 pages (46-47)
  • Willies, Lynn (1998); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-6 Win - Washing Floors at Winster Pitts, Derbyshire; 9 pages (49-57)
  • Willies, Lynn (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Derbyshire Lead Mining in the 18th and 19th Centuries; 3 pages (31-33)
  • Woodhouse, H. (1985); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-4 Dec - Recollections of Mill Close Mine, South Darley, near Matlock; 5 pages (228-232)
  • Worley, N.E. (1975); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-1 May - Geology of the Blende Vein, Magpie Sough; 5 pages (28-32)





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