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Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill is a complex of extractive and processing sites located in Westmorland that represents the industrial heritage of lead mining in the English Lake District. The site comprises mining workings, ore processing facilities, and a smelt mill dating principally to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reflecting the expansion of lead extraction during the Industrial period. The mines exploited veins of lead ore within the local geology, with the associated infrastructure supporting the labour-intensive processes of ore concentration and smelting necessary to produce marketable metal. The survival of these physical remains, including mine workings, processing structures, and related features, provides material evidence of the regional lead industry's technical and economic organisation during this period of intensive mineral extraction.
Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015654. View the official record →
Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill is a complex of extractive and processing sites located in Westmorland that represents the industrial heritage of lead mining in the English Lake District. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015654.
Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill 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 1015654.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Top Power House electric power generation station and associated leat for Greenside lead mine centred 740m NNW of Hole-in-the-Wall (1.7 km), Prehistoric rock art at Place Fell Cottage, 370m north east of Goldrill Bridge (4.4 km), Prehistoric rock art at Green Rigg, 310m north east of Goldrill bridge (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill'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.
Greenside lead mines, ore works and smelt mill stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava.