This part of the work to address river pollution from abandoned metal mines being carried out by the Coal Authority and Environment Agency. Nenthead residents are invited to discuss these proposals in ...

The River Nent is one of the most polluted in England with flood water containing silver and lead from the former Nenthead mine near Alston. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

Nenthead Mine, considered one of Europe's best preserved former lead mines, is being given a £250,000 make over. It used to employ thousands of people but is now run as a historical education centre.

Adventure photographer Tom McNally descended deep below a moorland landscape to capture his latest award-winning picture. Tom abseiled 80m down the 100m Brewery Shaft at the Nenthead complex of lead ...

People have been digging beneath the ground in Nenthead for centuries. Archaeologists believe it has been a site of silver, lead and zinc mining from the Roman times, if not before. But when the last ...

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THE bleak landscapes left by centuries of toil in some of the region's remotest dales would seem unlikely tourist attractions. But that could all change, if those behind a blueprint for preserving ...

Developers say a controversial hydro electric power project in Cumbria should be up and running in weeks. The £400,000 scheme at the former Nenthead lead mines is close to a site of special scientific ...

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