Alderley Edge - General Site


Copper Museum

Oct 29th, 2024 from RG by BertyBasset

Dec 22nd, 2024 by BertyBasset



Stoke on Trent & Cheshire
Alderley Edge
53.2930145, -2.2114911
SJ 8600 7736
Private Land
182m
#26,549


Derbyshire Caving Club provide open days and private visits to the various Alderley Edge Mines. Two open weekend are provided - one in April, one in Autumn.
Private visits also available.



Tickets available online in advance.
Private visits available via https://www.derbyscc.org.uk/alderley/current_visiting.php



Publications (30)

  • (1925); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXX - Copper Ores: Midlands, Lake District & N Wales; 102 pages
  • (1996); CATMHS - Newsletter 045-January; 36 pages
  • (1998); BGS - Minerals in Britain - Copper; 6 pages
  • (2018); CATMHS - Newsletter 130-February; 39 pages
  • (2020); CATMHS - Newsletter 140-August; 48 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Alderley Edge Mines Cheshire; 1 pages
  • Carlon, C.J.; NMRS (1981); British Mining 16 - Galantry Bank Copper Mine, The; ISBN 0 901450 19 7; pp.4-9,11,17,18,21,34,35,37.
  • Carlon, Chris J. (1981); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-1 Jun - Eardistion Copper Mine, Shropshire, The; 14 pages (29-42)
  • Craddock, Paul T. and Craddock, Brenda R. and Langenscheidt, Adolphus (2002); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-1 Sum - Stone Mining Hammers from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica; 5 pages (24-28)
  • Edited by D. J. Linton (2009); Welsh Mines & Mining - The Lode of History; 122 pages
  • Edited by D. J. Linton (2015); Welsh Mines & Mining - Mining Technology - Technical Innovation in the Extractive Industries; 181 pages
  • Gale, David (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-5 - Evidence of Ancient Copper Mining at Engine Vein, Alderley Edge; 8 pages (266-273)
  • Moseley, Max; NMRS (2010); British Mining 89 - Metalliferous Mines of Cartmel & South Lonsdale; ISBN 9780901450661; pp.29,95.
  • NMRS (1973); Memoirs Vol2, No.3; pp.120-121.
  • NMRS (1995); British Mining 51 - Grinton Mines, TheTyson, L.O., Spensley, I.M. & White, R.F. ; ISBN 0901450 42 1; pp.45.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1994; pp.9
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1995; pp.8
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1983; pp.10
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1988; pp.1
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1980; pp.2
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1988; pp.10
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1992; pp.9-10
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/1998; pp.7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Nov/1990; pp.1-2
  • NMRS; Newsletter Nov/2015; pp.9.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1987; pp.1
  • Pickin, John and Worthington, Terry (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-5 - Prehistoric Mining Hammers from Bradda Head, Isle of Man; 2 pages (274-275)
  • Timberlake, Simon (1994); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-3 Sum - Archaeological and Circumstantial Evidence for early Mining in Wales; 11 pages (133-143)
  • Timberlake, Simon (2015); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-3 Sum - New investigations and new ideas on Prehistoric-Roman metal mining and smelting in Wales; 10 pages (21-30)
  • Willis, Lynn and Sheelagh (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-5 - Grooved Stone Hammer from Alderley Edge, A; 1 pages (289)


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