Fawside Level, Allenheads
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Fawside Level, Allenheads
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 8 Oct 2022
The Fawside Level is an adit portal to the Beaumont Lead Mine dating to the mid-C19. Narrow horseshoe-arched portal with dressed stone surround in wall of squared rubble. Later concrete infill in head of arch protected with an iron gate. Above portal sunk rectangular panel with hollow-chamfered surround, plain. Work on this level commenced in 1776 but the similarity of the portal form to that of Blackett Level (1855) suggests the entrance was reconstructed in mid-C19. The Fawside Level portal is Grade II Listed (1370612): https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1370612
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Image Location
Latitude
54.803815
Longitude
-2.218692