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Brynford Hall

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 18020
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Holywell
Unitary authority : Flintshire
NGR : SJ18957475
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL LEAD MINE / POST MEDIEVAL SILVER MINE

Description :
Lead/Silver (Early 19th century-1870)

Geology
Carboniferous Limestone and Holywell Shales.

Workings
The Brynford Hall sett worked the Milwr Vein as it ran east to west passing to the north of the Hall. An area of waste to the west of the Hall appears to have been the main working area. The Brynford Hall Mining Company operated until 1870, when the mine was incorporated into the Milwr Group and later the Herward mines.

A substantial area of earthworks and mining subsidence is located on either side of the Brynford Road as it runs uphill from the former workhouse, now Lluesty Hospital. Further shafts run east to west in the fields to the south of the Hall and west of the modern housing estate of Pystyll; these southern parallel veins were the Ellis and Beili-gwyn Veins. A day-level ran out beneath the Halkyn-Holywell Road and water still issues from a point at SJ19237470.

Transport
No evidence.

Power
No evidence.

Processing
No evidence.

Other features
No evidence.

Sources :
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1993 , Site visit record - PRN18020

Events :

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Compiled date : 31-12-1995


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April 20, 2025, 12:55 pm - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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