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Providence Smelting Mill – Lead, Sweat and and 200 Years of Silence
The arch in this image above has stood on this windswept Yorkshire moor for over two hundred years. It is now the most eye-catching feature in this otherwise barren valley.
Near Greenhow, west of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, the ground holds centuri ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/15/providence-smelting-mill-lead-sweat-and-and-200-years-of-silence/
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How Hush: A Gorge Carved by Water and Industry
Another glimpse from Thursday’s wander through Swaledale: this is How Hush, a scar across the hills carved not by nature but by centuries of lead mining.
Lead was likely valued here long before history began to take notes. The vast Grinton–Fremington dykes, which probably marked prehistoric tr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/10/04/how-hush-a-gorge-carved-by-water-and-industry/
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Grinton Smelting Mill
Grinton Smelting Mill is one of the best-preserved lead mills in the Yorkshire Dales. It sits in Cogden Gill, just south of Grinton village, at the confluence of two becks. The site offered water, level ground, and easy access to ore. One of the becks had to be diverted, culverted and partly covered to make space for the building.
In the Dal ...
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A Rainbow Over Ruin: The Legacy of Great Rundale’s Baryte Mines
A rainbow graces the Pennine valley of Great Rundale, near Dufton—a charming touch to a landscape turned into an industrial graveyard. The old lead and barytes mines have left their mark: adits, crumbling shafts, stone hut ruins, and vast heaps of rocky waste. The track winding up the dale carries the faint memory of men trudging out from Duft ...
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Beldi Hill Smelt Mill
Following my exhausting cycle ride around Swaledale yesterday, I wisely opted not to stray far today. So instead, here is another photograph from that trip.
I was aware of Swaledale’s lead mining legacy, but stumbling upon this particular site was an unexpected delight. The Beldi Hill Smelt Mill sits awkwardly wedged into the hillside, just below a dainty little ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36751
#Swaledale #YorkshireDales #19thcentury #history #LeadMining
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Low Slitt Lead Mine, Weardale
This is what's left of the Low Slitt Lead Mine, once one of the biggest mines in the North Pennines. The mine had a long history, with lead ore extraction going on as early as two centuries before it really took off in the early 1700s, thanks to the efforts of the Sir William Blackett Lead Company. At its peak, over 100 men worked here, carving out a level in the hillside an ...
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Another new member-registered #OnePlaceStudy! Jude Rhodes is researching #Grassington in the #Yorkshire Dales, looking at its historical background and industries, and focusing on inhabitants of the village centre over the past 150 years.
Profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/north-yorkshire/grassington/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #LeadMining #YorkshireDales