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Latitude: 54.8188 / 54°49'7"N
Longitude: -2.2636 / 2°15'48"W
OS Eastings: 383160
OS Northings: 547132
OS Grid: NY831471
Mapcode National: GBR DDMQ.RD
Mapcode Global: WHB32.64CP
Entry Name: Adit Entrance of Swinhope Horse Level on South Bank of Swinhope Burn
Listing Date: 23 August 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1042934
English Heritage Legacy ID: 240286
Location: Allendale, Northumberland, NE47
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Allendale
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Allendale St Cuthbert
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
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
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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