Tankerville Mine

Hope-Shelve District, Shropshire, England, UK

Tankerville Mine is a former lead mine which was worked between around 1830 and 1890ish.

The mine was formerly known as Ovenpipe Mine.

 

The site is open to the public and can be visited – check the ‘Shropshire Mines’ link below.

The site has undergone conservation to keep it safe for the public to visit.

There are several great writeups of the site linked below, which are far more details than I would manage to fit into this page!

 

Further reading

 

 

 

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