Helen Harris’s Dartmoor Mines- H to I

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The third post in the Helen Harris Dartmoor Mines list brings some mine names that have not appeared in the previous publications.

Click here to view the latest version of the  visual bibliography map of Dartmoor Mines.

“Towards the end of the eighteenth century, encouraged by the Industrial Revolution’s technical developments and by the resultant keen for metals, back came prospectors and speculators to probe the moor’s resource.”

Harris page 37

The Mines

G

Gem Mine page 226 SX494706 NLS

Wheal George page 224 SX529704 NLS Walkhampton 

Gibbet Hill page 208  ,SX503809  NLS Mary Tavy

Gobbett page 206  SX647728  NLS Lydford (Postbridge)

Golden Dagger SX682803 NLS Manaton 

Gooseford  page 222 SX672925 NLS South Easton

Great Rock page 196 SX822818 NLS Hennock

Great Week page 191 SX71387 ? NLS Chagford

Great Wheal Eleanor page 210 SX735833 NLS North Bovey Tracey

H

Haytor Iron Mine page 200 SX772770 NLS Ilsington

Headland page 210  SX694811 NLS North Bovey 

Hemerdon Wolfram Mine page 69 SX571582 NLS Plympton

Hemsworthy page 200 SX744761 NLS Ilsington 

Hexworthy page 50  SX661711 NLS SX655708 NLS Lydford (Postbridge)

Hillbridge Console page 212 SX534806 NLS Peter Tavy

Holne Chase page 196 SX724716 NLS Holne

Homerton page 211 SX561912 NLS Okehampton

Huckworthy Bridge page 224 SX533706 NLS Walkhampton

Huntingdon page 194 SX670670 NLS Dean Prior

I

Ivy Tor page 222 SX627935 NLS South Tawton

Crossings A Hundred Years on Dartmoor is now available on kindle.

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