tributary of the River Clyde. The Leadhills Miners' Library (also known as the Allan Ramsay Library or the Leadhills Reading Society), founded in 1741...
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local bus routes, as the road between Wanlockhead and Leadhills was closed for repairs. The Leadhills & Wanlockhead won the Heritage Railway Association...
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Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and 1 mile (2 kilometres) south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands...
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Leadhills railway station was opened on 1 October 1901 as the intermediate stop on the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway and served the lead mining...
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The Leadhills Supergroup, formerly the Leadhills Group is a geological formation in Scotland. The Supergroup is named after the village of Leadhills. Palaeoflow...
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crossing a short distance north of Leadhills station, where the tramway led to a washery. The narrow gauge Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, which is...
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been several attempts to run commercial mines. In the Lowther Hills, Leadhills, and Wanlockhead areas gold prospecting and the extraction of lead metal...
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identified and described in 1832, were named after the Leadhills vein. Lanarkite, another form found at Leadhills, was used by Korean physicists in 2023 in an attempt...
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Scots Mining Company (section Leadhills)
working the lead mines at Leadhills.: 1 Following a protracted court case regarding water rights with the rival Leadhills Mining Company the Scots Mining...
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the same year he was appointed manager for the Scots Mining Company at Leadhills, where the Scots Mining Company House was built for him in 1736. His next...
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Holzappel [de]), Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It occurs at Mies, Slovenia; Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Castelberg St. Avold, Moselle, France; from Langban...
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Retrieved 20 June 2020. Alloa Advertiser (newspaper) 25 August 2021 "Leadhills & Wanlockhead Mines". Buildings of Scotland: Lothian, by Colin McWilliam...
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administrative county of South Lanarkshire moves into them around the village of Leadhills and the Daer Reservoir. There is some obscurity surrounding the name Lowther...
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450-metre (1,480 ft) contour (with the exception of Glengonnar Station on the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, which is well outside the village), whereas Flash...
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Kirkhill Kirkmuirhill Lambhill Lamington Lanark Larkhall Laurieston Law Leadhills Lesmahagow Lightburn Lilybank Lindsayfield Linthouse Longriggend Luggiebank...
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Kirkpatrick Durham Kirkpatrick-Fleming Langholm Lauriston Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch, Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, Lincluden Collegiate Church...
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November 2017) Borthwick, C.W., 1992, Leadhills and Wanlockhead - an excursion: http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Leadhills_and_Wanlockhead_-_an_excursion...
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severe electrical storm, James Braid, surgeon at Lord Hopetoun's mines at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, had an extraordinary experience whilst on horseback: On...
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the crystals encrust cavities in glistening granular galena; and from Leadhills, in Scotland, pseudomorphs of anglesite after galena are known. At most...
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third-coldest low-lying place in the UK after the villages of Dalwhinnie and Leadhills with an annual mean temperature of 6.8 °C (44.2 °F). Braemar has twice...
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ultraviolet is displayed by the Leadhills specimens, the Argentolle material does not fluoresce. Macphersonite is found in the Leadhills region of southwest Scotland...
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specific gravity of 6.57. It was discovered in 1827 in the Susannah Mine, Leadhills in the county of Lanark, Scotland. In addition to the type locality in...
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Aberdeenshire Almond Valley Light Railway, Livingston, West Lothian Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, South Lanarkshire Craigtoun Miniature Railway...
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ores in mining areas of Wales, Cornwall, Devon, the Pennines and the Leadhills/Wanlockhead area of Southern Scotland from the 17th century onwards. They...
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Broughton Railway Symington (1st) Lamington Abington Crawford Elvanfoot Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch Auchencastle Moffat Beattock Wamphray Dinwoodie...
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"NS8815 : William Symington Monument, Leadhills". Geograph. Retrieved 8 March 2024. "History of Leadhill". Clydesdales Heritage. Retrieved 8 March...
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Kirkmuirhill, Lesmahagow South Lanarkshire ML12 BIGGAR Biggar, Broughton, Leadhills, Symington, Wanlockhead South Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, Dumfries...
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form of lead sulfate with formula Pb2(SO4)O. It was originally found at Leadhills in the Scottish county of Lanarkshire, hence the name. It forms white...
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crystal, found in 1927 at the New Glencrieff mine at Wanlockhead on the Leadhills ore field, "an excellent example of a complex doubly terminated scalenohedral...
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