| Description: | Liberty: Preston under Scar
Situated: Near Tullis Cote
Grid Ref: SE 0780 9121
OS10k sheet: SE09SE
Mineral: Lead
History: Was standing in 1851. Also called Preston Smelt Mill.
Survey No.: H/M521
Gill, M.C. "Yorkshire Smelt Mills - Part 1: The Northern Dales" British Mining No.45 (1992), pp.111-150.
PRESTON or KELD HEADS OLD MILL Preston under Scar SE.078912
Dr Raistrick's suggestion that this mill was on the east bank of Keldheads Gill; in Leyburn township; was wrong. His proposed site for the mill is actually in Wensley. Nor was Preston mill on the site of the later Keldheads mill. It was on the west bank of Keldheads Gill; which is in Preston; near the Stokoe condenser.
The earliest record of Kell Heads (Preston) mill is a map dated 1723; and there is nothing to add to its early history; except to remark that if the Lords Bolton had an earlier mill; this is a good site for it. The suggestion that Preston mill was replaced in 1840 is wrong; however; because it was still standing in 1851; when it is shown as 'Old Smelt Mill' on a plan of Lord Bolton's mines (1).
1. NMRS Records H/M 540 {NYCRO ZBO (L) 9}. Plan of the lead mines in the manors of Redmire; Bolton and Leyburn belonging to the Right Honourable Lord Bolton leased to Messrs Weston; Hartley; Kirkby and others; May 1851. |
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| Parish: | Preston-under-Scar |
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| District: | Richmondshire |
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| County: | North Yorkshire |
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| Grid reference: | SE078912 |
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| Map reference:
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407800,
491210 |
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| Period/Subjects: | 0 -
MINE |
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| Identifiers: | [
ADS
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Depositor ID -
MYD43102 |
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Associated ID -
Northern Mines Research Society recnum 1215 |
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Associated ID -
Scheduled Monument 28242 |
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