Gutterby mine access · AditNow Community

bigchris
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16 years ago

I visited West Cumbria last week and took a look at Gutterby. The field where the shaft is looks like it has been turned into a prison camp with high barbed wire fencing and an embankment preventing access. Is the landowner trying to keep people out? Does anyone have any information?

moorlandmineral
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16 years ago

#2

Must be recent!! Went across to Gutterby last October, the mine was as I remember it from my first visit 15 years ago!!!
I would be surprised if anyone would need to put up a fence to keep people out of Gutterby, surely the mine does that anyway

superkev
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15 years ago

#3

please do correct me if I was in the wrong place.........
about 400yd west of the road from Woodend to Moor Row stands a 30ft sq fenced off area that is well overgrown with brambles. was this the previously known manhole access point? if so I would hazard a guess that it has sunk about 6ft and would no longer be accessible without some garden shears and a couple of spades!

micks
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13 years ago

#4

yes due to people going down without owners consent entry now restricted,I was down there today and noticed that a lot unscrupuless mineral collectors had left the place in a sorry state, unless people start to respect other peoples property and ask politely for access over the land the situation is not likely to improve,e mail me if you are interested in a visit.

moorlandmineral
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13 years ago

#5

"micks" wrote:
yes due to people going down without owners consent entry now restricted,I was down there today and noticed that a lot unscrupuless mineral collectors had left the place in a sorry state, unless people start to respect other peoples property and ask politely for access over the land the situation is not likely to improve,e mail me if you are interested in a visit.

Thats strange.... We were down underground a couple of years ago and with kind permission of the landowners I may add. We asked about the unusually large fencing arrangement and were told that it was to protect the owners from losing fowl (which variety they reared escapes me) to thieves!!!
The place is in a sorry state, I suspect gravity and bedding planes may well be the culprit, not the hand of man!!!

John Lawson
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13 years ago

#6

As has already been stated the farmer who owns the land has erected deer fencing in order to keep thieves from stealing his hens and free-range eggs.
The mines condition has detiorated over the 20 years I have visited it and the condition of the roof on the second incline is clearly extremely dangerous.
This is purely due to a slippage in a bedding plane and has nothing to do with any exploration.
In my opinion this is a dangerous mine simply because there is no where to go if one of these roof slabs moves.
Take care future explorers!

John Lawson
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13 years ago

#7

As has already been stated the farmer who owns the land has erected deer fencing in order to keep thieves from stealing his hens and free-range eggs.
The mines condition has detiorated over the 20 years I have visited it and the condition of the roof on the second incline is clearly extremely dangerous.
This is purely due to a slippage in a bedding plane and has nothing to do with any exploration.
In my opinion this is a dangerous mine simply because there is no where to go if one of these roof slabs moves.
Take care future explorers!