Gwaynllifon


Lead Mine

Jan 1st, 2024 from MOTGF by Buddle-Bot



North Wales
Gwydyr Forest
53.117204, -3.814912
SH 7863 5932
Open Access
270m
#2,043


These workings occupy the high plateau area to the south of Parc Mine and are driven mainly along a number of parallel north-south lodes including southerly continuations of the Gors and Fucheslas Lodes – Red Lode and Owen’s Lode respectively. The workings occupy a heavily worked area of spoil and ruined buildings in the forest surrounded by a fence. There are a number of stone lined open shafts in the vicinity of the junction of the New Lode with Sutton’s Lode. The 1200’ long Gwaynllifon Deep Adit, now gated was driven from a point just to the north of Llyn Parc along Sutton’s Lode to intersect the main workings. To the west are fenced off, overgrown surface stopes along the Cobbler’s Lode.


Publications (3)

  • Bennet & Vernon (1991); Mines of the Gwydyr Forest, Book 3 - Parc Mine
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Gwydyr (high)park Area Geolectrical Survey Carried Out By The Electrical Prospecting Company Of Stockholm In Conjunction With Craelius Company Of London; 1 pages
  • Dutton, L.A. & Roberts, R.M. & Vernon, R.W. (1995); Pandora, Alltwen, Coed Mawr Pool & Gwaenllifon GAT Report; 76 pages





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