Description

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE GREAT EGGLES HOPE
NY93SE and NY976302
8/98 Bouse hoppers 100
metres north of
Great Eggleshope
26.6.87 Beck

GV II
Bouse hoppers for Wire Gill Lead Mine. Probably late C18. Thin courses of
dry stone rubble with oblique coping. 3 walls, c. 2 - 2.5 metres high, form
hoppers on side of fell. The top is level with track at c. 400 metres above
sea level, which follows contours from former Wire Gill Mine, the bottom at
c. 395 metres above sea level abutting a horse-shoe-plan enclosure. This
enclosure is formed by walls from ground level at front rising to c. 2.5
metres at the back. In the back are 2 small square openings at ground level,
formed by wood jambs and lintels with iron hinge-pins. From this level there
was easy access to the main track along the valley.

A rare survival of lead mining techniques.

Listing NGR: NY9765630277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608570

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)