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Greenhow Hill

North Yorkshire, England

Mining

Mining

This page is arranged in rough chronological order with the earliest dates first.

1527 – An agreement about Smelting of lead from Greenhow

1699 – Account of Lead at York belonging to Richard Taylor and Thomas White

1707 – An Extract from the Account Book of Thomas White

1782 – Gillfield Mine

1790 – A Memorial of Leases of Lead Mines at Greenhow

1805 – Alexander Dunn – Mining Lease

1809 – A Boundary Dispute between John Yorke Esq and Sir Thomas Woollaston White Bart

1818 – Mr R.Smith’s report of Bewerley Mines – November 30th 1818

1824 – A Plan of Sunside Mining Ground situate at Bewerley in the County of York agreed to be leased by the trustees of the late Sir Thomas Woollaston White Bart. to Messers Thomas Hopper & Co. Scale 8 Chains to an Inch. By Nathan Newbould & son.
Please note that this plan is large and may take a couple of minutes to display.

1827 – A page from the Cockhill & Sunside Mines Ledger 1827-1829, kept by their agent, Nathan Newbould.

1844 – A report on the state of the Principal Levels in the Greenhow Mines with remarks on some of the Veins and Workings, June 1844

1850s – Mining Questions to the agent of the Craven Moor Mines

1895 – Bradford Corporation Water Works on Greenhow A short article written by Shirley Everett.

1995 – A History of The Greenhaugh Mining Company. Written by Mike Gill and published in British Mining No 55. Memoirs of the Northern Mine Research Society (1995). Reproduced here with his kind permission.

Books for sale

Our book, “Life on the Hill” which we published in 2005 is still available here at £16 including postage.

Our latest book, due later this year, is a reprint of the two books written by Harald Bruff in the 1920s – T’ ill an’ t’oade uns upuv Greenho’ & T’ Miners – character sketches of Yorkshire Lead Miners, together with photos, authors notes, further information on the characters in the books and family history information. Watch this space.

Other books for sale published by the Northern Mine Research Society:

The Greenhow Mines

The Grassington Mines

The Wharfedale Mines

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