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Post Medieval/Modern · Lead Mine

Klondyke Lead Mill

Conwy, Wales
Cadw SAM CN159
Period
Post Medieval/Modern
Site type
Lead Mine
Broad class
Industrial
Nation
Wales
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Klondyke Lead Mill is a post-medieval industrial lead processing site located in Conwy, Wales, which operated as part of the wider lead mining and smelting activities characteristic of North Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site comprises the physical remains of lead milling infrastructure, reflecting the technological processes employed to extract and refine lead ore during this period of intensive mineral extraction. As a scheduled monument under the care of Cadw, Klondyke Lead Mill preserves evidence of Wales's important role in the British lead industry, documenting the industrial heritage of the region during the post-medieval era.

Klondyke Lead Mill is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN159. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Klondyke Lead Mill?

Klondyke Lead Mill is a post-medieval industrial lead processing site located in Conwy, Wales, which operated as part of the wider lead mining and smelting activities characteristic of North Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN159.

What period does Klondyke Lead Mill date from?

Klondyke Lead Mill dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a lead mine. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.

Who is responsible for protecting Klondyke Lead Mill?

Klondyke Lead Mill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CN159.

What other scheduled monuments are near Klondyke Lead Mill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Vale of Conwy Lead Mine (2.7 km), Coed Mawr Pool Lead Mine (4 km), Afon Llugwy Lead Mill (4.6 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Vale of Conwy Lead Mine
Post Medieval/Modern · Lead Mine2.7 km
Coed Mawr Pool Lead Mine
Post Medieval/Modern · Lead Mine4 km
Afon Llugwy Lead Mill
Post Medieval/Modern · Mill4.6 km
Bryn-y-Gefeiliau Roman Site
Roman · Fort5.2 km
Capel Curig cairn
Prehistoric · Round Cairn5.5 km
Pont y Pair
Medieval · Bridge6.1 km
Hafodlas Slate Quarry Mills and Associated Features
Post Medieval/Modern · Water Power System6.2 km
Afon Ystymiau, cairns to N of
Prehistoric · Round Cairn7.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Klondyke Lead Mill

Klondyke Lead Mill stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic tuff.

The wider landscape

Around Klondyke Lead Mill

Bryn Celli DduArchaeological site · ~16.7 miles
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