Viewpoints · North East England
Plumbago Mines
Plumbago Mines is a viewpoint in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 20 min–45 min
- Best time of year
- Clear days year-round
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Plumbago Mines is a named viewpoint in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 54.5039°, -3.1889°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Derwent and Tributaries SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Seatoller Wood, Sourmilk Gill & Seathwaite Graphite Mine SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Seathwaite (/ˈsiːθweɪt/ SEE-thwayt) is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Lake District near Scafell Pike and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads southwest from the hamlet of Seatoller, which is where the B5289 road begins its steep climb up the pass to Honister Hause on the boundary between Borrowdale civil parish and Buttermere civil parish. The nearby Seathwaite Fell takes its name from the hamlet and lies about 1.1 miles (2 km) to the south-southwest of it. The name derives from a combination of the Old Norse words sef (sedges) and thveit (clearing) and may be taken to mean "clearing in the sedges". The name, then spelled Seuthwayt, first appeared in written records in 1340.
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Background
History
Along the nearby Newhouse Gill, which descends from Grey Knotts, is a graphite mine which was opened after the discovery of graphite there in 1555. The extracted graphite was eventually used to supply the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company factory in Keswick. The commercial mining of the unusual solid form of graphite found near the hamlet of Seathwaite ceased around 1891 when veins of the solid graphite became harder to find. The mine entrance is north-northwest of the hamlet at .}}
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- Coordinates
- 54.5039, -3.1889
- District
- Cumberland
- Parish
- Borrowdale
- Postcode
- CA12 5XJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Penrith and Solway
Sources
- osm: n3263077144 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Seathwaite, Cumberland (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Seathwaite.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Plumbago Mines?
- Plumbago Mines is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode CA12 5XJ), in the parish of Borrowdale.
- Is Plumbago Mines a protected site?
- Yes — Plumbago Mines is part of the River Derwent and Tributaries SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Seatoller Wood, Sourmilk Gill & Seathwaite Graphite Mine SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Plumbago Mines free to visit?
- Yes, Plumbago Mines is free to enter.
- How do I get to Plumbago Mines?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode CA12 5XJ. It sits within the Penrith and Solway parliamentary constituency.