Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Meadow Shaft, Minera
Minera, Wrexham, Wales
A scheduled monument in Minera, Wrexham, recorded as Lead Mine (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Lead Mine
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 16 July 1997
- Community
- Minera
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.05068, -3.08254
- SAM number
- DE244
- Cadw record number
- 987
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1588 · Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a 19th century lead mine including its water-management and transport systems, extraction and dressing processes with their power systems. The mine has been recently excavataed and consolidated and includes the Meadow shaft, engine house and boiler house. Below the engine house a section of railway leads to a pair of ore bins with a picking floor. The crusher house was located on the same level. At the eastern end of the site lie the ruins of an ore house and a buddle, with a reconstructed water wheel.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance and illustrate our knowledge and understanding of mining technology from a single period. Lead mines may be part of a larger cluster of industrial monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is bounded by the existing fence line of the Minera Vistor Centre, but the Visitor Centre building itself is excluded.
Nearby in the register
- Meadow (or City) Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Chimney near Meadow Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- GwylfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Jones CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.