I have just added this 'major feature' to the database, but it isn't picking up any of the iron mines I added to the database yesterday, so I cannot include them in the railway's profile as mines served. I have checked the locations and I think I have put them all in properly, so why are none of them showing up as nearby?

Did you check the GR you put in for the railway Peter. I ask because the GR for Gupworthy station is SS963356.

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I put in the GR for Comberow station as this is halfway along the line and near the most impressive remaining feature of the line.

The only mine within 20km (that's the maximum radius for major surface feature to mine links) is Dodington copper mine.

It may simply be that the railway is listed as being too far away from the bulk of these iron mines.

Or maybe I need to widen the area which major surface feature to mine links can be added - only problem then is that when you're adding them for (say) 50km you might potentially be given a list of hundreds of mines!

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Simon - check out the GRs for Raleigh's Cross Mine and the WSMR. They are about a mile apart.

Is there a fault with the mines nearby facilty? I just checked Carnarvon Old Iron Mine and Carnarvon New Iron Mine, both of which are showing on the Streetmap link as being next to each other at head of WSMR incline. They do not show up on each other's mines nearby lists though. I even tried 5km and 10km range!

Arrrgh! I knows a bug when I sees one! (or is it a 'feature'! :lol: )

Peter, have you got any info on the slate quarry that is nearby please? It is near Treborough.

John, there is nothing in the index of Sellick's book, so I have no information unfortunately.

Arrrgh! I knows a bug when I sees one! (or is it a 'feature'! :lol: )

I fear you've found a bug - quite how/why I don't know. The mines nearby runs off the same script as the Google mapping : 😠 :guns:

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When I first saw it I thought perhaps the database needed a refresh before the algorithm would pick it up, but it's 24 hours now, and it still isn't detecting the neighbours.

Johnnearcfon wrote

Peter, have you got any info on the slate quarry that is nearby please? It is near Treborough.

I know Treborough quite well (I used to monitor for gas and collect water samples for analysis on a regular basis), unfortunately There's not much to see as the pit was backfilled as a landfill many years ago. There is a haulage level down the hill that drove into the pit midway (gated) and a blondin system was used in the pit when it was working. The tips are growing over and there's now a nature trail through them. The churchyard is worth a visit as some of the gravestones have people from North Wales (Llanllyfni etc), not suprising as it was supposedly worked by a "Gog" using North Wales techniques. There is a bit about it in the book "The Industrial Archaeology of Exmoor".
That book also has a lot on the iron mines and mineral lines of the Brendon Hills.
I used to live in Watchet and walked the line on a regular basis, a good walk especially the incline!!

There does seem to be a bug, when Peter added Burrow Farm Iron Mine, it didn't show that I had added it some time before and in both cases it gave the nearest mine as a chalk quarry in Wiltshire!

I know Treborough quite well (I used to monitor for gas and collect water samples for analysis on a regular basis), unfortunately There's not much to see as the pit was backfilled as a landfill many years ago. There is a haulage level down the hill that drove into the pit midway (gated) and a blondin system was used in the pit when it was working. The tips are growing over and there's now a nature trail through them.

I remember walking past it some years ago (I guess between 15 & 20). At the time, as you say, the pit to left of road (as you walk uphill) was being filled with rubbish. However, I had a very quick look round the opposite side of the road. I do remember there was a weighbridge hut there but can recall very little else! I will look and see if I took a photo of it, if so I will scan it in. Do you know what activities there originally were on that side of the road? Has that now been obliterated by landfill too?

There does seem to be a bug, when Peter added Burrow Farm Iron Mine, it didn't show that I had added it some time before and in both cases it gave the nearest mine as a chalk quarry in Wiltshire!

There is a bug in the mines near, which apparently is only affecting areas in this ST sheet. It'll take me a day or so look into this.

Duplicates - there is currently no code in place to check for duplicates when new mines/locations are added. The 'add a mine' page simply asks people to check first.

It's becoming obvious that this isn't enough and I need to add some duplicate checking - likely soundex name plus a match of at least mineral type and similar location. It'll be a good few weeks before I can find time to re-write the mine admin section though to add this I'm afraid.

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John, as you go up the road the pit was only on the left, the haulage level runs under the road and so on the right are the tip runs, still there. There was a few buildings (workshops?), none of this area was effected by tipping operations as they were in the grounds of a large house (possibly the quarry owner/manager). I used to visit when they were still tipping, just two men on site (in their sixties) who would relate tales of local characters such as "Dickie two shovels".

My visit was 7/6/88, for some reason I didn't take any photos! I walked on and took some of WSMR which I have now uploaded.

Not really about the WSMR !!

I am pulling together some research on the guys who dug Gupworthy level - I hope to put an article in the SOuth GLoucestershire Mines Research Group Newsletter

I would like to include Peter's Pictures from 1982 if possible

Regards

David

No problem.

Ta

Can send you a copy if you are nterested

Dave

Yes please I have been interesting in the Brendon Hills Iron Mines since 1976 when I first walked the length of the mining field while on holiday.