Greenside Mine

Greenside Mine was a successful lead mine in the of England. Between 1825 and 1961 the mine produced 156,000 long tons of lead and 1,600,000 ounces of silver, from around 2 million tons of ore.
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Photo: Silence-is-infinite, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Scenic viewpoint
  • Description: former lead mine in the Lake District of England
  • Also known as: “Greenside Lead Mine”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sheffield Pike and Glenridding Dodd.

Peak
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a fell in the , a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of . It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, on the eastern side of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells and it looks down onto .

Peak
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small fell in the , at the end of a ridge descending from the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above the village of and on the western shore of .

Peak
Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.
is a fell in the , an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It is properly an eastern ridge of , but was treated as a separate fell by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenridding and Patterdale.

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.

Village
Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small village and civil parish in the district of , England. It is in the eastern part of the , and the name is also used for the long valley in which the village sits, also called the Valley. is situated 2 miles southeast of Greenside Mine.

Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the Cumberland district, in the county of . It is located on the A591 road and the B5322 road. has a disused place of worship and formerly, a youth hostel. It is just north of . is situated 3 miles west of Greenside Mine.

Greenside Mine

Latitude
54.54949° or 54° 32′ 58″ north
Longitude
-2.98533° or 2° 59′ 7″ west
Open location code
9C6VG2X7+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4530317307
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­mine
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­mine
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­viewpoint
Wiki­data ID
Q18160313
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Satellite Map

Discover Greenside Mine from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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