Llanrwst Lead Mine - Conwy, North Wales, UK
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Dragontree
N 53° 07.030 W 003° 49.490
30U E 444795 N 5885622
This engine house is part of the remains of the Llanrwst Lead mine.
Waymark Code: WM6MH4
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/21/2009
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Built in 1876-77 this engine house was made to house a 25" cylinder horizontal condensing engine. The chimney is 18m high and was built to provide a through draft for the fire in the boiler house. The engine pumped and kept the mine free of water. This engine house and its associated features is the only surviving example in North Wales.
There is an information board on the footpath which leads past the engine house but be careful of the passing mountain bikes.
Wikipedia has some fascinating details:
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'This was a large and prominent mine marked by an engine house chimney. Situated at Bwlch yr Haiarn. There are a number of capped and locked shafts none of which are currently accessible. Most prominent is Endean’s Engine Shaft next to the old engine house. On a hillock to the south east is the capped Doctor’s Shaft. Just across the forest track to the east is the gated Shallow Adit and the capped Air Shaft. The capped Footway and Diagonal shafts are in the grounds of the Outdoor Centre. To the right of the road to the north, and just opposite the Vale of Conwy Level 2 adit is the gated Llanrwst Deep Adit. The adit is in an area of extensive surface workings, all overgrown, dangerous and fenced off.
Underground, both the New Shaft (an underground pumping shaft offset from Endean’s) and the Diagonal Shaft were intercepted by the Parc Mine Number 2 level, through which Llanrwst ore was to be extracted, but in the event was never utilised.'