Moss Mine

aka Moss Shaft, Old Moss Shaft, Pit Moss Mine, or Pit Moss Vein

Lead Mine

Worked from 1764 to 1880

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

	#14,335
	Yorkshire Dales
	Grassington Moor
	54.099063, -1.948126
	SE 0349 6702
	Open Access
	399m
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Publications (6)

BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Grassington Moor Lead Mines Old Moss Area.Seam Section; 1 pages
Gill, M.C. & Burt, R.; NMRS (2003); British Mining 72 - Mines of Yorkshire, The; ISBN 0901450 56 1; p.272.
Gill, M.C. (2010); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-6 Win - John Barratt and the Grassington Mines 1818-1834; 9 pages (10-18)
Gill, M.C.; NMRS (1993); British Mining 46 - Grassington Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 39 1; p.81.
NMRS (1980); British Mining 13 - Mines of Grassington Moor & Wharfedale, The; ISBN 0 901450 16 2; p.58.
Wilson G.V., Eastwood T., Pocock R.W., Wray D.A. & Robertson T. (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol II - Barytes and Witherite; 136 pages

Sites within 2km (205)

Bank Head Quarry - 1,189m
Slate Pit Rigg Quarry - 1,217m
James Ripley's Level - 1,805m
Greenwich Vein - 1,774m
Scar End - 1,901m
Folly Vein - 1,766m
Chelsey Mine - 1,744m
Frankland Fold Mine - 1,646m
Jacob Bradley - 1,600m
Lord Nelson's Level - 1,583m
Moorcock Vein - 1,593m
Chelsey Vein - 1,549m
Flatting Vein - 1,507m
Grizedale Edge - 1,428m
Sword & Pistol Mine - 1,406m
Green Plat - 1,502m
Beast Tongue Ground - 1,407m
Smiling Fancy Vein - 1,599m
Grizedale Head - 1,435m
Legrams Vein - 1,584m
Whirler Rake - 1,809m
Castaway Dressing Floor - 1,359m
Smiler - 1,509m
Legrams New Shaft - 1,480m
Wash Vein - 1,285m
Joy's Shaft - 1,468m
John Young Gate - 1,280m
Bycliffe House - 1,541m
Piper Plet Building - 1,336m
Cockbur Dressing Floor - 1,744m
Cockbur Engine Shaft - 1,751m
Beckwith Vein - 1,209m
New Ripon Vein - 1,206m
Bycliffe New Shaft - 1,653m
Deve Vein - 1,188m
York Vein - 1,186m
Piper Plet Vein - 1,290m
How Gill Level - 1,652m
London Vein - 1,163m
Burnt Ling Vein - 1,157m
Castaway Mine - 1,195m
Legrams Shaft - 1,398m
Burnt Ling Sun Vein - 1,138m
Old Ripon Shaft - 1,122m
Piper Plet Mine - 1,236m
New Ripon Lead Mine - 1,102m
Morley Turf Pits - 1,246m
Moorgate - 1,224m
Freeman Bycliffe Vein - 1,504m
Bacco Rake - 1,034m
Murgatroyd's Shaft - 1,295m
Moor Smelt Mill - 1,226m
High Smelt Mill - 1,193m
Cupola Smelt Mill - 1,224m
Smithy - 1,201m
Old Ripon Vein - 994m
Lime Trial - 971m
Ripon or Ripon End - 961m
Legerins Vein - 1,241m
Cupola Shaft - 1,189m
Chatsworth Shaft - 962m
Settling Pond - 1,154m
Settling Pond - 1,156m
Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (a) - 1,102m
Founder Shaft - 910m
Crosscut Vein - 880m
Rodgers Vein - 859m
Fourteen Meers Mine - 867m
Ten Meers Vein - 872m
Bycliffe East Ten Meers - 1,332m
Ripley Vein - 849m
Ringleton Footway Shaft - 937m
Tennant's Shaft - 835m
Legrends Footway Shaft - 1,144m
Cross Vein - 815m
Founder Vein - 830m
Standfast Vein - 879m
West Turf Pits Shaft - 1,022m
Derbyshire Founder Engine Shaft - 799m
Count House - 852m
Taylor's Shaft - 763m
Turf Pits Footway - 911m
Brake House Wheel - 869m
Lee's Vein - 738m
Run Shaft - 748m
Old Glory Vein - 751m
Glory Mine - 757m
Dead Shaft - 738m
Little Glory Vein - 739m
High Ringleton Shaft - 812m
Middle Vein - 733m
Whim Shaft - 962m
Bycliffe Shallow Adit - 1,255m
Old Turf Pits Dressing Floor - 878m
Cavern Vein Shaft - 921m
Bycliffe Two Meers - 1,184m
Simpson's Shaft - 1,258m
Benjamin Airey's Shaft - 710m
Disputed Vein - 712m
Old Turf Pits Shaft - 870m
Lambert's Shaft - 1,203m
Parker's Shaft - 1,277m
Dales Chemicals Dressing Mill - 763m
Coalgrovebeck Dressing Mill - 759m
Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (b) - 867m
Rodwell's Shaft - 1,300m
Coalgrovebeck Sough - 685m
Lupton's Shaft - 659m
Friendship Mine - 658m
Jones Shaft - 648m
Low Ringleton Shaft - 714m
Rushbob Vein - 656m
Bycliffe Top Level - 1,091m
Bycliffe Bottom Level - 997m
Richard's Shaft - 1,037m
Bycliffe Mine - 1,045m
Bycliffe Vein - 1,144m
Sharper Vein - 1,031m
Cupola Smelt Mill - Condenser (c) - 717m
Rushbob Shaft - 610m
Somers Shaft - 626m
Sun Gregory - 580m
Coalgrovebeck Timber House - 662m
Gregory - 572m
Sixty Nine Yards Vein - 590m
Fourteen Meers Third Shaft - 564m
Mangham Three Meers - 548m
Six Meers Vein - 538m
Cupola Smelt Mill Chimney - 694m
High Winding House - 584m
Black Vein - 543m
Brunt's Shaft - 595m
Coalgrovebeck Vein - 582m
Ridley Old Work - 513m
Shaw's Shaft - 1,024m
Coalgrovebeck Engine Shaft - 581m
Ringleton Vein - 576m
Engine Shaft - 573m
Roads - 474m
Ridley Old Work Vein - 472m
Galloping Vein - 458m
Black Rake - 460m
Henry's Shaft - 621m
Old Riddle - 431m
Brown Bycliffe Vein - 987m
Weather Gleam Mine - 404m
Bagshaw's Pitmoss - 398m
Bagshaw & Co's North Shaft - 393m
Bagshaw & Co's South Shaft - 388m
Dog Kennels - 517m
Bentham Mine - 322m
Coalgrovehead Mine - 289m
White Hillock - 581m
New Moss Shaft - 316m
West Peru Shaft - 590m
Cottingley - 215m
Alexandra Vein - 730m
Sandhaw Reservoir - 874m
Wilkinson Pits - 163m
Wickham Allotment - 184m
Slanter Vein - 91m
New Peru Shaft - 480m
Moss New Shaft - 72m
Musgrave's Shaft - 773m
Old Moss Vein - 100m
Cavendish Vein - 301m
Old Peru Shaft - 804m
Dry Vein - 175m
Peru Mine - 808m
South Allotment - 174m
Eddy's Vein - 181m
Currey Shaft - 286m
Cottingham Shaft - 348m
Blow Beck Mine - 1,059m
Deep Cut - 720m
Blow Gill Shafts (a) - 1,383m
Blow Gill Shafts (b) - 1,496m
Groove Gill - 1,236m
Tag Bale - 1,739m
Tag Bale Level - 1,845m
Hulk Shaft - 813m
Bolton Gill Wheel Pit - 1,941m
Power Rope Turn Gear (b) - 1,894m
Bolton Gill Top Level - 1,703m
Bolton Gill Engine Shaft - 1,712m
Cook's Shaft - 1,666m
Pump Rigg - 1,951m
Pikehaw Bottom Mine - 1,668m
Black Drift - 1,965m
Union Shaft - 1,993m
Gray Vein Shaft - 1,875m
Beever's Engine Shaft - 1,985m
Beevers Wheel House - 1,942m
Beevers Footway Shaft - 1,978m
Ellerbeck Dressing Floor - 1,952m
Cockbur Wheel House - 1,702m
Cockbur Wheelpit - 1,696m
Cockbur - 1,716m
Mitchell's Shaft - 1,684m
Cockbur Level - 1,662m
Jones Level - 1,618m
Mitchell's Footway Shaft - 1,677m
Blue Level - 1,952m
Cockburchase Vein - 1,662m
Coalgrovebeck Pits - 862m