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Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake is a group of lead and fluorspar mining sites in Derbyshire dating from the medieval period through to the post-medieval and industrial eras. The complex comprises multiple veins and associated infrastructure including soughs (drainage adits), mines, and washing floors that represent successive phases of mineral extraction across several centuries. The sites demonstrate the long history of lead mining in the Derbyshire lead field, with the soughs in particular representing significant engineering works undertaken to facilitate deeper mining by draining water from the workings. These remains preserve important evidence of medieval and later mining technology and the evolution of mineral extraction methods in one of England's principal lead-producing regions.
Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1412782. View the official record →
Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake is a group of lead and fluorspar mining sites in Derbyshire dating from the medieval period through to the post-medieval and industrial eras. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1412782.
Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1412782.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Grindlow bowl barrow (8.3 km), Lathkill Dale and Mandale mines and soughs (9.1 km), Bowl barrow on Haddon Fields (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Arbourseats Veins and Sough, Wardlow Sough, Nay Green Mine and Washing Floors, Hading Vein and Seedlow Rake stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.