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Red78 Joined: 24/04/2011 Location: North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 04/08/2019 11:38:27 Reply \| Quote You've all probably seen the coverage of the flooding in Swaledale on the 30th July around Grinton, Fremmington & Reeth (and Arkengarthdale), and you might be wondering what the concequences it has had for our mining heritage. Surfice to say it has not been good. I took a walk up the route of Cogden Gill yesterday (or atleast attempted to) from Cogden Hall, where the farmers bridge has washed out (which was also a bridleway that led to some pits on Cogden Heugh), up the gill to the lime kilns by Sharrow Hill and down to the smelt mill. The mill itself (which was recently cleaned out to expose the floor) has been inundated by the flood waters, filling it with mud and rock, and washing out anything that had been left inside. Outside the covered stream, fine stone arched culvert has been ripped away, and bits of the roof that held together because of the motar have been dumped further down stream. The old mill dam has a huge gap in it, with mud and debris spread over a wide area. At Devis Hole a large portion of the spoil heap has been washed away, and the rest is being used by the shooting estate to repair the tracks before the "Glorious 12th". Up at How Mine, the spoil heaps have again been reduced in size by the torrent of water that must have come down Ridley Hush. The sheer amount of loose rock that has come down here is hard to comprehend, and the entrance to How Adit has been completely buried. How Hush is now hanging 8-10ft above the new stream bed. I hear too, on the grapevine, that Sleigill has washed away several bridges, and that there is a 30ft precipice where the path up the side of the gill once went. I'm also quite sure that the Arkle went through the tunnel near Storthwaite. I suppose only time will tell how much damage has been done to the two Dales. IP: 90.203.52.239
christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland / North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 04/08/2019 22:49:05 Reply \| Quote Video taken today by John Cameron at the location of the now buried Devis Hole entrance. IP: 2.219.178.163
ChrisJC Joined: 13/10/2007 Location: Northants View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 05/08/2019 20:25:22 Reply \| Quote Epic. So a spot of digging is required there! Chris. IP: 94.126.234.198
C. J. Curry Joined: 28/01/2014 Location: Swaledale View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 07/08/2019 12:21:25 Reply \| Quote Yep. The estate is kindly lending us a digger one evening and we’re opening the entrance right out and dropping some concrete tubes in at an angle something like Lucy Tongue. I’ll post here when we get it organised as any spare hands would be appreciated. Also there’s been a big fall in Danby on the main level at one of the cross veins. Many tons of sludge have run down from the stope and filled the level and a huge section of the stope sidewall had peeled off. We managed to dig through an make it passable but needs timbering to make it safe so be cautious if you’re in there in the near future. -- Chris IP: 86.191.198.251
christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland / North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 07/08/2019 12:30:15 Reply \| Quote Count me in. Might be able to get plastic pipe if you don't have a free source already. IP: 213.218.195.185
Red78 Joined: 24/04/2011 Location: North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 07/08/2019 17:26:39 Reply \| Quote Any chance you can reopen How Mine Adit as well? It has vanished. -- Geology: the study of rocks & similar substances (minerals n such) that make up the Earth''s surface. Minerals: are the building blocks of rocks. They are a naturally occuring,inorganic, solid, crystalline substance which has a fixed structure. (and some of them are really pretty) IP: 90.203.52.239
sir francis lilo Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: leyburn,wensleydale View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 11/08/2019 16:25:29 Reply \| Quote Hi Chris,our group ventured up to devis on Thursday night and 3 of us had a short dig and exposed the level entrance,there will be no need for a digger and concrete piping as it was only loose gravel about 3 ft deep,I'm going back up this Thursday with a mate from reeth and possible another lad from leyburn where I'm from to finish off,before we left we temporarily covered back in with big flat stones as weather for the next few days wasnt great,regards,lilo -- sirfrancislilo its to wet to work lets go digging IP: 78.145.230.90
Big-G Joined: 15/01/2017 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 22/08/2019 20:41:55 Reply \| Quote Anyone know if any of the Gunnerside mines were affected ?? IP: 82.0.21.170
Red78 Joined: 24/04/2011 Location: North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 22/08/2019 21:11:29 Reply \| Quote No damage in GG, the rain missed the upper dale. -- Geology: the study of rocks & similar substances (minerals n such) that make up the Earth''s surface. Minerals: are the building blocks of rocks. They are a naturally occuring,inorganic, solid, crystalline substance which has a fixed structure. (and some of them are really pretty) IP: 90.199.66.65
Big-G Joined: 15/01/2017 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 22/08/2019 22:15:51 Reply \| Quote Good stuff IP: 82.0.21.170
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 10:33:23 Reply \| Quote From Gunnerside go towards Reeth and turn left at Low Row. Over the top you get to Surrender Mill and bridge. keep going over the fells and you reach a ford with an adjacent footbridge. One of my favourite spots. Ruined! Where there was once a pleasant grassy area, people would camp, overnight, picnic, play ball games etc, now a rock strewn mess. (click image to open full size image in new window) The sign was surrounded by grass. -- Having a rest after NAMHO 2019 IP: 92.23.164.33 Edited: 23/08/2019 10:33:43 by royfellows
Big-G Joined: 15/01/2017 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 13:45:53 Reply \| Quote Wow, I know that spot well. Fell off my motorbike going through the ford a couple of years ago.......slippy things those fords !! Looks totally unrecognisable there !! IP: 82.0.21.170
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 15:19:08 Reply \| Quote The footbridge is OK but a large patch of tarmac from over the road has been lifted and dumped next to the bridge. The place is a mess. (click image to open full size image in new window) However, a few hours work with a digger and load of topsoil would sort it. If you carry on to Langthwaite, turn left towards the mill, then go right heading for Barnard Castle, you pass a farm on the left. There was a sloping meadow in front of the farmhouse, its now 'the Rockies'. The road there is undermined and there are cones everywhere. -- Having a rest after NAMHO 2019 IP: 92.23.164.33
sir francis lilo Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: leyburn,wensleydale View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 16:22:14 Reply \| Quote Cant remember the name of the dam that is right at the top of old gang,about 3-4 miles up near the last shooting hut,but that I've been told by the land owners is absolutely f****d,that's about the top of gunnerside gill -- sirfrancislilo its to wet to work lets go digging IP: 78.145.228.127
Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 21:02:04 Reply \| Quote This the place? https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1015855 IP: 86.130.196.252
Big-G Joined: 15/01/2017 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 23/08/2019 21:54:00 Reply \| Quote That's a shame, it's lovely right up the top at the dams ?? IP: 82.0.21.170
Red78 Joined: 24/04/2011 Location: North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Posted: 02/02/2020 23:32:51 Reply \| Quote I don't think it can be Blakethwaite, else it would have effected GG, and there was no damage. I shall be able to head up that way in a couple of Sundays time for a closer inspection. -- Geology: the study of rocks & similar substances (minerals n such) that make up the Earth''s surface. Minerals: are the building blocks of rocks. They are a naturally occuring,inorganic, solid, crystalline substance which has a fixed structure. (and some of them are really pretty) IP: 2.124.237.233

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