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"The western part of the lead ore works at Allendale include remains of a washing floor and a set of bouse teams, as well as the drainage channel of the Fawside lead level, a revetted section of the River East Allen and a section of spoil tip. They form part of a wider complex of ore works and lead mines at Allenheads that include the Fawside level (begun in 1776) and the Gin Hill shaft (dug by 1793). It was the focus of the planned industrial village of Allenheads. Lead working ended here in 1896."
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Allenheads Lead Ore Works (Scheduled Monument 1016348): Link

Between 1729 and its closure in 1896, the Allenheads Mine produced over 250,000 tons of lead ore ready for smelting into lead. The modern industrial buildings beside the car park date from a failed attempt to mine fluorspar in the 1970s.