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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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The Prosperous Smelt Mill
These crumbling stone walls tell quite a story.
Standing at the foot of a bracken-covered hillside near Pateley Bridge, the ruins of the Prosperous smelt mill look like something from a forgotten world. They are, rather fittingly, exactly that.
Lead was probably first mined here by the Romans. The first written record dates from 1781. Aro ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/14/the-prosperous-smelt-mill/