Lead Mines

Lead Mines is an archaeological site in Anglezarke, Chorley District, England. Lead Mines is situated nearby to the tomb Pikestones, as well as near the forest Holts Flat.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yarrow Reservoir and High Bullough Reservoir.

Yarrow Reservoir

Reservoir

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Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir.

High Bullough Reservoir

Reservoir

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High Bullough Reservoir is the oldest of all the reservoirs in the Rivington chain, having been authorised by the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 and completed in 1850.

Pikestones is the remains of a Neolithic Burial Cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire, England. The site is approximately 150 feet long and 60 feet across at its widest point. Pikestones is situated 2,400 feet northwest of Lead Mines.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Healey Nab and Heath Charnock.

Healey Nab

Locality

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Healey Nab or "The Nab" is an area of countryside owned partly by Lancashire County Council containing rolling hills, moorland, woodland, ponds and streams to the east of Chorley, Lancashire, between the M61 and the West Pennine Moors. Healey Nab is situated 2 miles northwest of Lead Mines.

Heath Charnock

Village

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Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 2,065, reducing to 2,026 at the 2011 Census. Heath Charnock is situated 2½ miles southwest of Lead Mines.

Adlington

Village

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Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors. It is 3 miles south of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a township around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s. Adlington is situated 2½ miles southwest of Lead Mines.

Lead Mines

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Anglezarke, Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.6438° or 53° 38′ 38″ north

Longitude

-2.5607° or 2° 33′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C5VJCVQ+GP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1988307274

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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