London Lead Company

The Quaker-run company that developed Nenthead from 1737 into England's first purpose-built industrial village, with pioneering worker welfare provisions, before selling its leases in 1882.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Bentyfield Mine Cumbria ?–?
Bondog Hole Mine Derbyshire 1765–1774
Brownley Hill Mine Cumbria ?–?
Caplecleugh Mine Cumbria 1799–1882
Carrs Mine Cumbria 1800–1882
Closehouse Mine County Durham ?–?
Coldberry Mine County Durham 1861–1902
Cornish Hush Mine County Durham 1867–1902
Derwent Lead Mines County Durham 1700–1800
Flinty Fell Lead Rakes Cumbria 1706–?
Flushiemere Barytes Mine County Durham ?–?
Halkyn Mountain Flintshire 1695–?
Hardshins Lead Mine Cumbria ?–?
Harehope Gill Mine County Durham 1796–1830
Hilton and Scordale Mines Cumbria 1824–1876
Hurst Mines North Yorkshire 1747–1778
Lady's Rake Mine County Durham 1868–1902
Lodge Syke Mine County Durham ?–1902
Longcleugh Mine Cumbria ?–1882
Lunehead Mine County Durham ?–1902
Meliden Lead Mines Denbighshire 1736–?
Middlecleugh Mine Cumbria 1758–1882
Nenthead Mines Cumbria 1737–1882
Pike Law Mine County Durham 1753–?
Rampgill Mine Cumbria 1737–1882
Silverband Mine Cumbria 1821–1879
Smallcleugh Mine Cumbria 1787–1882
Stanhopeburn Mine County Durham 1830–1866
Swinnergill Mine North Yorkshire ?–?
Whitesike Mine Cumbria ?–?
Whitesike Mine Cumbria 1848–1882

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