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| Hilton Lead Mines, Murton | ||
| Hilton Lead Mines | ||
| Hilton Mine | ||
| locality:- | Scordale | |
| locality:- | Hilton Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Murton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | lead mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY76402289 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7622 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY72 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 10 10) placename:- Hilton Lead Mines |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Hilton Mine item:- bunyan; Wilson's Level; galena; lead ore |
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| source data:- | Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick,
published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published
1877-1913. goto sourcepage 139:- "..." "The mines in this district are almost wholly wrought by adit levels, some of which have been driven a great distance, and where the rock is not sound, the roof has been arched with stone and mortar, instead of the usual bunyan constructed of timber. There is a good example of this kind of work at Hilton Mine, about two miles east of the village of Hilton, where the low level has been arched in a most substantial manner, for a distance of 150 fathoms. The total length of this level is 300 fathoms, and it has opened up a continuous run of orey ground about 190 fathoms in length. Wilson's level, which is 14 fathoms above the low level, has been driven 120 fathoms. Still higher up the mountain," goto sourcepage 140:- "there are two more levels, one 22 and the other 54 fathoms above Wilson's level; the lower of these has been driven 42 and the upper one 75 fathoms. This mine may almost be regarded as a continuation of Murton Mine, as it is on the same vein, and only separated from it by a narrow ravine. The workings in Murton Mine are probably more extensive than those in Hilton, and both of them have yielded large quantities of galena." |
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| hearsay:- |
The mine extracted galena, lead sulphide, PbS, in the Melmerby Scar Limestone, Lower
Carboniferous period. It was opened 1824. It was operated by the London Lead Company
to 1876. It was reopened about 1896 to mine baryte, barium sulphate, BaSO4, used as
a filler in paint, a pigment for paper and textiles, an oil drilling lubricant, etc.
It closed 1919. |
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