Description

NY 84 NW LANDS COMMON TO THE SWIN HOPE
PARISHES OF ALLENDALE
AND WEST ALLEN
21/166 Adit entrance of Swinhope
Horse Level on south bank
of Swinhope Burn
II

Lead mine adit portal. Early C19. Squared rubble. Section of walling with
elliptical-arched adit portal and square locker to right. Immediately within
portal, similar lockers, probably for miners' lamps, on left and right of
passage. Swinhope Mine was in operation 1815-1872. The horse level was driven
to link up with the earlier Whimsey Shaft, working the Swinhope or Williams
Vein.

Listing NGR: NY8316047132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294833

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