Keld Heads Mine

aka Keld Heads Air Shaft or Keld Heads Engine Shaft

Lead Mine
Worked until 1888

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Jan 10th, 2025 by BertyBasset


Yorkshire Dales
Preston under Scar
54.3125534, -1.8794611
SE 0794 9078
Private Land
188m
#15,296
  • 1805-1823 Lord Bolton and Mr Breare
  • 1825-1827 Messrs Hall & Co. (Matthew Chalder, agent)
  • 1843-1844 Tattersall & Co. (Leeds Mining Co.)
  • 1845-1859 Weston, Tattersall & Co.
  • 1859-1879 Weston, Bowman & Co.
  • 1845-1879 Keld Heads Mining Co.

Publications (19)

  • (1952); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol IV - Fluorspar; 162 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Keldheads : Chaytor Rake; 1 pages
  • Gill, M.C. & Burt, R.; NMRS (2003); British Mining 72 - Mines of Yorkshire, The; ISBN 0901450 56 1; pp.46,80,89-90,109-110,117,132,141,175,219,228-230,241,244,291,373,384,389,398.
  • Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1994); British Mining 49 - Wharfedale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 41 3; pp.61.
  • Goodchild, John; NMRS (2000); British Mining 66 - Adventures in Coal; ISBN 0901450 53 7; pp.64.
  • NMRS (1971); Memoirs Vol2, No.1; pp.8,13,15.
  • 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.68.
  • NMRS (1995); British Mining 51 - Grinton Mines, TheTyson, L.O., Spensley, I.M. & White, R.F. ; ISBN 0901450 42 1; pp.55-56.
  • NMRS; British Mining 34 - Memoirs 1987; pp.23.
  • NMRS; British Mining 45 - Memoirs 1992; pp.115-116,135.
  • NMRS; British Mining 61 - Memoirs 1998; pp.42-62.
  • NMRS; British Mining 67 - Memoirs 2000; pp.83-84,95.
  • NMRS; British Mining 71 - Memoirs 2002; pp.13.
  • NMRS; British Mining 90 - Memoirs 2010 - 50 Years of Mining History; pp.173,174,179,186,188-190
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1979; pp.4.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1998; pp.2.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1998; pp.2.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2005; pp.4.

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