Lead Smelting Mill

Lead Smelting Mill is a ruins in Melbecks, Richmondshire District, England. Lead Smelting Mill is situated near the ruins Peat Store, as well as near the hamlet Kearton.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks and The Punch Bowl.

Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks

Church

Photo: Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holy Trinity Church is the parish church of Melbecks, an area of Swaledale in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the mid 19th century, the Melbecks area fell within the parish of the Church of St Andrew, Grinton. Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks is situated 1 mile south of Lead Smelting Mill.

The Punch Bowl

Hotel

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Punch Bowl is a historic public house in Low Row, a village in North Yorkshire, England. The pub is dated 1638, and may partly date from that period, but is mostly mid-18th-century. The Punch Bowl is situated 1 mile south of Lead Smelting Mill.

Calver Hill

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Calver Hill is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It is composed of limestone and is situated at grid reference NZ012003, near where the valleys of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale meet, the village of Reeth is located on its lower south-eastern slopes, it reaches an altitude of 487 metres and is a distinguished feature in mid Swaledale.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kearton and Feetham.

Kearton

Hamlet

Kearton is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. Kearton is situated near Low Row and Reeth. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Feetham

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Feetham is a hamlet opposite Low Row in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Old Gang Mill

Locality

Old Gang Mill is a ruined building near Reeth, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The smeltmill was probably built in 1846, to replace the nearby New Mill.

Lead Smelting Mill

Type: Ruins
Categories: building, mine, and historic site
Location: Melbecks, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.3947° or 54° 23′ 41″ north

Longitude

-2.01607° or 2° 0′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C6V9XVM+VH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 40363051

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=mine

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Highlights: Peat Store and Cleasby.

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