Lumsdale Conservation Area
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The upper cascade at Lumsdale, catching a ray of sunlight in the shadows, taken on a trip with my good friend Julian Weitzenfeld and his wife Ruth when they recently paid a visit to the Peak District.
This is one of the oldest mills in the valley, known as Paint Mill because of its use in grinding barytes (Barium Sulphate) for the paint industry. The material was heated (calcined) on metal floors supported on bricks in a kiln-like structure and was used as a white pigment for paint manufacture. This mill has also been used as a lead smelting mill, to grind corn and as a bleaching mill and the wheel pit, old bleaching vats, traces of white barytes and the underground heating system with the associated chimneys to dry out the mineral are still visible.
Located immediately north of Pond Cottages the southern tip of the Pond 2 retains a sluice gate but the head of water was not used to provide power; the pond acted merely as a reservoir. This pond remains water-filled but is heavily silted, and is the subject of a current (2014) Heritage Lottery Grant bid to reinstate it.
A long exposure of one of the top falls at Arkwight's Lumsdale Project. One of my favourite locations in the Peak District, I have to keep returning again and again. www.cromfordmills.org.uk/lumsdale
"Past the Pond Cottages (originally for lead smelting) and a footbridge is a picturesque pond, held by the Lower Dam, which was built in 1830 to harness the Brook. This stone-lined reservoir features a central drain plug. From high on its dam wall, a still-visible metal pipe conducted water to the wheel of the adjacent, second mill, dating from 1850, and still functioning as a sawmill at the turn of the 20th century." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Brook
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This part of Lumsdale always makes me imagine discovering an ancient, ruined temple in a jungle clearing.
Taken on the Flickr Lumsdale Group meet on February 15th 2014 with Graham Fox, Kev Palmer, Steve Woodhead, Sean Chapman, Dave Oxtaby and last, but certainly not least Liz. (Oh, and a flying visit by Iain)
More information about Lumsdale can be found here.
One of the more spectacular waterfalls at Arkwright's Lumsdale Project, at the side of one of the ruined mill buildings.
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Lumsdale Conservation Area!
Most notably Alan Taylor.