Daylight hole Iron Mine
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taken from lindal website
Daylight Hole is a large artificial cavern excavated by iron ore miners, believed to have been abandoned around 1911. The mine was originally worked by the Pennington Mining Company, and later by Harrison Ainslie and Company. The entrance is on private land close to Whinfield Farm, at the bottom of a 150 feet deep crater. The main chamber is 240 feet long, 126 feet wide and in some places over 60 feet high. A deep lake occupies half of the floor area, and the other half is occupied by large boulders and debris from roof collapses. Passages are carved through the solid limestone, leading away from the main chamber. Some of these still contain railway lines and abandoned iron ore bogies, complete with buckets of axle grease. Some of the passageways have collapsed and lower levels are visible through holes in the floors. The cavern and passageways are liable to flooding, and in view of the number of previous collapses evident, the place can only be described as a very dangerous mine.
posted by mr ulverston on 02/07/2008
daylight hole
Very dangerous in places with some large holes dotted around, no rats though thank christ. Never checked all of it out is it on 3 levels?
posted by mr ulverston on 02/07/2008
Rats
The right tunnel, which leads to the most north part of the mine is very bad for rats in parts of summer, when the tunnel floors are dryer. bad for rats meaning the entire floor is sometimes crawling with them!
posted by Allan on 16/03/2007
The grid ref is actually wrong, the mine is near Lindal-In-Furness. for more info see... http:/ / www.lindal-in-furness.co.uk/ Resassoc/ catnews72.htm
posted by Allan on 28/01/2007
