Wad Mine

Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK

Wad Mine is a former graphite and lead mine near Seathwaite, well known for specimens of mineral graphite.

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This mine may also be known as the Seathwaite Wad mine.

Wad is a local term for graphite.

It is difficult to tell if ‘Wad Mine’ and the ‘Seathwaite Wad mine’ are the same place, as the shafts are in very similar places. If it is the Seathwaite Wad mine, the National Trust has a history of the site dating it to between 1850 and 1865.

 

 

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