Bishopdale Gavel Mine


Lead Mine
Worked until 1871

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot



Yorkshire Dales
Bishopdale
54.214544, -2.066209
SD 9578 7987
Open Access
537m
#13,880


Around the collapsed level portal, there are dumps containing barytes predominantly exhibiting a habit akin to the ‘oakstone’ variety found in Derbyshire.



1735 Thomas Ascough, John Yarker, William Currer & Walter Downs 1850 Joseph Wear 1851-1852 Thomas Joy 1852 Bains & Co. 1854-1866 William Sarginson & Co. 1855 Robert Hebden 1856-1857 Thomas Joy 1861 John Hillery & Co. 1862-1871 Sar


Publications (11)

  • Edited by D. J. Linton (2009); Welsh Mines & Mining - The Lode of History; 122 pages
  • Gill, M.C. & Burt, R.; NMRS (2003); British Mining 72 - Mines of Yorkshire, The; ISBN 0901450 56 1; pp.69-70,388.
  • Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1994); British Mining 49 - Wharfedale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 41 3; pp.14,18,38.
  • NMRS (1971); Memoirs Vol2, No.1; pp.9.
  • NMRS (1973); Memoirs Vol2, No.3; pp.158.
  • NMRS (1980); British Mining 13 - Mines of Grassington Moor & Wharfedale, The; ISBN 0 901450 16 2; pp.78,80.
  • NMRS; British Mining 45 - Memoirs 1992; pp.113.
  • NMRS; British Mining 80 - Memoirs 2006; pp.103,108-109.
  • NMRS; British Mining 90 - Memoirs 2010 - 50 Years of Mining History; pp.173,174,180,182,187.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1968; pp.15,17-18.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.16,18.





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