Description
This older mine in the Nenthead area was later operated from the southern branch of the Bloomsberry Horse Level, known as Brownley Hill Mine. Today, at least two level portals are still visible: one next to the road where it bends in Gudhamgill, and another higher up in the gill. The small dumps remaining are now covered in grass. The deposits mined were a branching of the Gudhamgill-Greengill-Bentyfield vein, with flats in the Great Limestone associated with the veins themselves. Sphalerite was the predominant sulfide present in these workings.
History
1859-1881 London Lead Company
External Links
Publications (3)
(2008); CATMHS - Newsletter 091-May; 44 pages
(2019); CATMHS - Newsletter 137-November; 37 pages
Critchley, Martin F. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-1 Sum - History and Workings of the Nenthead Mines, Cumbria, The; 50 pages (1-50)
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Sites within 2km (68)
Brownley Hill High Level - 36m
Gudhamgill Mine - 187m
Brownley Hill Mine - 502m
Bloomsberry Level - 563m
Gudhamgill Mine - 654m
Spelter Works - 764m
Greengill Mine - Level - 789m
Wellgill Shaft - 792m
Boundary Shaft - 802m
Wellhope Head Mine - Coke Shafts - 952m
Nenthead - Holmsfoot Level - 1,073m
Former Powder Store - 1,118m
Nenthead Fields North Level - 1,150m
Coke Shafts - 1,180m
Crook Bank Level - 1,189m
Grassfield Low Level - 1,200m
Nells Well Level - 1,255m
Ivy House - 1,261m
Gillgill Burn Level - 1,262m
Memorial Pump & Canopy - 1,280m
Nenthead Fields South Level - 1,282m
Holmsfoot Level - 1,290m
Nentsberry - Level - 1,312m
Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre - 1,409m
Grassfield - 1,416m
Haggs - 1,446m
Nenthead Mines - 1,485m
Rampgill Level - 1,491m
Caplecleugh Low Level - 1,509m
Brewery Shaft - 1,515m
Nentsberry - 1,517m
High Raise High Level - 1,525m
Nentsberry Shaft - 1,536m
Rampgill Mine - 1,539m
Greengill Mine - Greengill Syke Level - 1,540m
Rough & Ready Shaft - 1,541m
Wellhopehead Top Level - 1,544m
Wellhopehead Mine - 1,551m
Nentsberry Greens Sun Vein - 1,581m
Croft Level - 1,615m
Firestone Level - 1,628m
Wellhopehead Shaft - 1,641m
Rampgill Firestone Old Level - 1,644m
Coalcleugh Lead Rake - 1,656m
Rampgill - Low Whimsey & Engine Shaft - 1,656m
Rampgill - Woodhouse Whimsey - 1,659m
Rampgill Hush - 1,704m
Nenthead Smelt Mill - 1,734m
Nentsberry Greens Middle Vein - 1,740m
Dowgang - Level - 1,750m
High Raise Low Level - 1,767m
Rampgill High Whimsey - 1,773m
Wellhopehead Middle Level - 1,774m
Greengill Mine - East Level - 1,780m
Greengill Hush - 1,781m
Greengill Mine - Level - 1,795m
Nentsberry Green Level - 1,813m
Greengill Mine - Firestone Level - 1,817m
North Vein Level - 1,852m
Greengill Mine - 1,854m
Cowhill Deep Level - 1,879m
Rampgill Burn Old Level - 1,881m
Nentsberry Greens North Vein - 1,889m
Old Carr's Level - 1,895m
Dowgang - Shaft - 1,897m
Carrs & Hanging Shaw - 1,902m
Coalcleugh - 1,987m
Peter's Pits - 1,998m