Wanlockhead Lead Mining Museum

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Title

Wanlockhead Lead Mining Museum

Description

Hidden Treasures, Museum of Lead Mining, is situated in Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. Here you can explore the Visitor Centre, take a tour into the dark inside the Lead Mine and see how people lived here in three period Cottages 1750,1850 and 1910.
Despite the hardship of the work and the climate, Wanlockhead’s miners created one of the oldest Subscription Libraries in the country, which still has its original collection of almost 3,000 books.

Source

dumfriesandgalloway

Type

Museum

Identifier

1165

Spatial Coverage

current,55.39709,-3.780852;

Museum Item Type Metadata

Street

Wanlockhead Village

Place

Dumfries and Galloway

IsNewThisYear

No

AddressLine2

By Biggar

OpeningDate1

30/9/2012

OpeningTime1

11.00-16.30

OpeningTime2

11.00-16.30

Activities

Directions: From A76 take the junction for Wanlockhead (B797) just outside Mennock. Climb through the Mennock Pass to Wanlockhead. From M74 travelling south take Junction 13 and follow the signposts.

WC

Yes

DisabledWC

No

DisabledAccess

Yes

Refreshments

No

EventsForChildren

No

Parking

No

HearingLoop

No

LimitedAccess

No

NotAccessible

No

ID

12376

IsIncludedThisYear

No

Postcode

ML12 6UT

Citation

“Wanlockhead Lead Mining Museum,” Digital Open Doors, accessed November 5, 2024, https://ddo.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/1163.

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