To search the catalogue, enter the place name and word tithe in the Title field. extensive and the Wirksworth Mines Research Group has been The group is based at this mine and leases the The Peak District Mines Historical Society exists to preserve and promote interest in the important mining history of the Derbyshire Peak District and surrounding areas.. The earliest Ordnance Survey (OS) maps for Derbyshire were the 1 inch to 1 mile maps, published from 1840. Pick up a leaflet from the Mining Museum to guide yourself and to see where they struck it rich and where the Magpie Murders took place in an argument over who owned the vein. All rights reserved. At Wirksworth in the church you can see the medieval miner, a carving showing him Contact us for information on: • Discovering Chesterfield’s Greenways. The guide outlines the main series of historical and more recent maps available in our archives and local studies collections. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! more, see our. However if you } Search the catalogue entering the place name and word enclosure in the Title field. sfsi_widget_set();

At Magpie Mine at Sheldon in the hills above Bakewell, you can walk around the best surface remains of any site in Britain. To find out Details given vary significantly but may include field names, tenants’ names, land use and cultivation, water and other landscape features, mills and similar buildings (sometimes a separate document). There are lots of published guides in the local studies collection, from general guides about using maps for historical research (e.g. To the best of our knowledge all materials on this web site are used with the originator's permission. CAVING AND MINING > Where these maps are held at Derbyshire Record Office, you can find the detailed Record Society description in the online catalogue.

Imagine Winster on pay day at the three big mines and dozens of smaller, with its twenty four inns and alehouses and hundreds of young men with six or seven weeks' wages in hand! It may be less obvious today, but the remains of the industry and the wealth it created can be seen all over the Peak, in old workings, old barns erected in small fields by the miners, on the many "bole hills" used for smelting, and the later remains of smelting mills on the streams and rivers. Everything about the old lead industry, from the mining of ore to its sale, stemmed from the ancient claim of the monarch to all mineral rights. Most plans date from the mid to the late 19th century and are held under reference Q/RP. A guide to records of the Derbyshire coal mining industry (written March 1993, updated June 2020).Development of coal mining in DerbyshireThere has been coal mining in Derbyshire since the medieval period. Look at a big house like Hardwick Hall to see how lead was used like plastic is today: The roof, the gutters and down pipes, the windows and for bonding the stones together. Jowle Grove Mine which is above Peak Forest, south east of Eldon Hill, lies along the east-west trending White Rake or Watts Grove Rake (Watts Grove mine is also nearby). The Peak District Mining Museum is recruiting! Barmaster to put a "Nick" in the stow (windlass) The most useful maps for charting the development of a particular place and identifying individual buildings are the 6 and 25 inch to 1 mile maps, published from about 1879. The The remains of Jowle Grove mine are located at the eastern end of the monument, in Watt’s Plantation, where a group of features mark a concentrated area of activity. The best and

It was the only material for water storage and piping. Bage Mine has a 303 foot deep shaft with several levels carrying a pick and his wisket - a box for carrying the ore - whilst a short distance away is the Barmoot Hall where the Barmaster and miners jury still meet each year to administer the peculiar laws and customs of lead mining which are much the same today as when the court first met regularly some 700 years ago.

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payment of a freeing dish of ore. It was the royal possession of the mineral rights and the royal wish to encourage lead mining, that dictated the two characteristic features of the old industry. Watt’s Plantation, which follows the line of the rake, was planted between 1880 and 1922. prized that the Derbyshire miners picked the seams down to a

New editions of the map were produced approximately every 30-40 years, although sometimes the gap may be smaller or larger.

Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It was essential for the roofs of public buildings and the new houses being built in every part of the country by the nobility and gentry. Whilst every effort is made to keep the information up to date and correct no guarantee can be made about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information. ( Log Out /  Its large houses, for example Chatsworth, Haddon and Hardwick, were built by families who gained fortunes from lead duties, whilst most other substantial houses in the area were built by successful mine shareholders or lead merchants. for trapped f?ngers and in medicine for treating syphilis. In places the eastern edge of the coalfield extends into Derbyshire and members of the Peak … In the last 100 years, Peak District mining has mainly concentrated on minerals which were once discarded as waste by lead miners: barytes, calcite, and, most importantly, fluorspar. Where they exist, the maps are generally on a large scale and the schedule records allocations of enclosed land, acreage, boundaries, and roads and footpaths. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Photographs have been taken over many years and may not represent the current situation. Imagine Winster on pay day at the three big mines and dozens of smaller, with its twenty four inns and alehouses and hundreds of young men with six or seven weeks' wages in hand! Pingback: Family History – Next Steps | Derbyshire Record Office. A large number of OS maps, including for Derbyshire, can be seen on The National Library of Scotland excellent website with features to overlay the historic maps over modern satellite images. It Any omissions are regretted but can be rectified as and when necessary. Workings date to the late 1700s when lead was so prized that the Derbyshire miners picked the seams down to a quarter of an inch wide. exploring and digging in this mine for many years. Choose a fine day for these walks - no need for you to suffer the severe weather like the knockers chippers and washers" had to. It is unknown when the rake was first worked, but Dirtlow Rake, from which Watt’s Grove Rake branches, is thought to have been worked in the medieval period. Regd. 504662), High Rake Mine – A Brief History by J. H. Rieuwerts, The Recovery of Wills Founder Engine and its Pump, Bole Smelting Site at Lodge Moor (Ughill Moor), Smelting Lead on Lodge Moor, Ughill, Sheffield, South Yorks, Mining History – Guidance for Contributors. ( Log Out /  Our online catalogue currently only lists the maps by Ordnance Survey reference number rather than by place name.