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Situated on Private property

Parish: Lydford NGR: SX 579 734 (central)
       
Ordnance Datum: 420 metres (shafts area) Country & Mineral: Granite + Cassiterite (tin ore)
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

 

 
 

Titles & dates the mine worked under

Bachelors Hall Mine:  1795,  1832, 1845,  1853, 1860.

 
 
 

Named shafts and depth reached in brackets

Engine Shaft (33 fms)  SX 5973 7347:     Annie's Shaft (17 fms)  SX 5979 7350:     Footway Shaft (17 fms)  SX 5970 7345:

 
Number of adits & lodes
3 adit levels           5 known tin lodes.
 

Unusual Facts

The proprietor, Mr. Gray, and others erected a stamping mill and smelting house “in the bottom beneath, on the banks of a small stream, which emptied itself into Blackabrook.” 17

 
Number of waterwheels & sizes
2 waterwheels - sizes unknown
 
 

Summary of remains

3 filled-in shafts, whim platform, 2 dressing-floors, wheelpits, adit remains, and possible sites of mills.

 

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