This is a very strange name for a mine... are there any other equally bizarre?

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I heard of one called "booze lead mine"

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I heard of one called "booze lead mine"

Hahahhaha.. Good one LAP, Booze lead level is in Arkengarthdale. I think there are some pics on ME.

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Bog Mine

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=335600&y=297800&z=4&sv=335600,297800&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf 

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Think there's a treacle mine somewhere in Wiltshire.

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There's a "Goodest Tuesday Adit" nr the Stiperstones. Pretty strange name.

If we're talking about the mine I think we are here on Bonsall Moor, it's just called Beans and Bacon mine. Not the strangest name in the Derbyshire orefield, my personal favourite from round here is Cackle Mackle mine, although there's also Horsebuttocks which has a certain ring to it.... :lol:

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I've heard of Cackle Mackle and Bean & Bacon, but not heard of Horsebuttocks - where is it?

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Just outside of Winster, heading back towards Wensley - I can't remember off the top of my head whether it's North or South of the road. There was an exploration report in Mining History about 15 years back, but it hasn't yet found its way onto the PDMHS website.

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Yep, I've found it in journal index, Winter 1990
You got any co-ords for it?

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Quite a few in Cornwall. Dare I mention it, one near Ding Dong called ***** Adela. (Don't ask). 🙂

And another in different area, Fatwork and Virture. :confused:

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I dug out my copy of the article on Horsebuttocks, and it's to the South of the road. There are very obvious hillocks on the North side (Winster Pitts mine dressing floors, I think), Horsebuttocks is across the road and down a shaft at about SK 251 606. It links into some other mines, and there's a really good coffin level in it to judge from the photos.

For rude strange mine names, there's Grey Mare Arse mine down at Wirksworth!

😉

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You should add them to the list, you don't need a grid ref yet

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I'm not sure which mine on the Grey Mare vein was the original Grey Mare Arse ( though Jim Rieuwerts might...) although there is a shaft cut into by one of the quarries above the national stone centre which is a possible. I could add Horsebuttocks, but I'd be tempted to wait until the article gets online otherwise there wouldn't be much to link to it.

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Ar,
There a couple of goodies down here in Cornwall, namely Bread and Cheese, and Ale and Cakes........Nice!
Roy.M

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Just trawled through my database and found a few more Cornish gems. Wheal Dumpling, Wheal Strawberry both in the parish of Crowan. Wheal Snuff at St.Ives, Wheal Lemon in Germoe, Suit and Cloak in Redruth, Bloody Nose in Lanner near Redruth, King Edward (doesn't specify spuds or cigars) in Camborne, and the best, and I kid you not is at Blackwater village called The Gimp!......................I still like the Grey Mare Arse though.

Roy.M

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Nellie Kirkham told me that this mine was so named because of how the lead was found in it, i.e. in nodules and stringers (very narrow veins), it reminded the miners of their meals i.e. beans and streaky bacon. It is a shallow mine and lies on Glebe land in a clump of trees near the summit of Blakelow Hill on Bonsall Moor (where once in days gone by a beacon was lit), south of Tower Lane (obviously called after the beacon tower). It was last worked in 1926 during the General Strike for fluorspar. Because it was on Glebe Lane (i.e. church land) it was saved from being worked during the opencast fluorspar bonanza of the late 1970's and early 1980's because the last Rector of Bonsall didn't come to an agreement with the mining firm that wanted to opencast it. Altogether the Peak Park Planning Committee granted 24 planning consents for the extraction of fluorspar and associated gaunge (vein) minerals on Bonsall Moor during this period. I have placed the plan of of this consent with my records in Derbyshire Record Office. Must look my OS map out so I can give a map reference for this mine.

Thanks Sougher, a really interesting explanation of why it's called Beans and Bacon!

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one near Ding Dong called ***** Adela (f*nny Adela)

ive heard that was a very wet and dark place to work :lol:

I seem to remember a feature called 'Snotty Bess's Rake' up in t'Dales of Yorkshire.