Snailbeach is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.6167°, -2.9246°.

Mines & mining heritage · Mid Wales

Snailbeach

Snailbeach in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

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Snailbeach is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Snailbeach is a village in Shropshire, England, located at grid reference SJ375025, three 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the village of Pontesbury and around 12 miles (19 km) from the county town of Shrewsbury. The population details taken at the 2011 census can be found under Worthen. The village was formerly home to a large lead mine.

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A village was built for workers at the local lead mine – Snailbeach Mine, which reputedly dates back to Roman times. The mine has some of the best-preserved surface buildings of a lead mine left standing in Britain including a Cornish Engine House. It is managed by the Shropshire Mines Trust. Snailbeach Mine was the biggest lead mine in Shropshire and it is reputed to have yielded the greatest volume of lead per acre of any mine in Europe. Although the miners mainly extracted lead ore (galena) from the mine, smaller quantities of barytes, calcite, fluorspar, silver and zinc were also obtained.

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Coordinates: 52.6167, -2.9246
District: Shropshire
Parish: Worthen with Shelve
Postcode: SY5 0NT
Parliamentary constituency: South Shropshire

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wikidata: Q3401266 (CC0)
wikipedia: Snailbeach (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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