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Girl's Hole Stanton's Shaft SSSS-52-D Udders Hole Deep Groove Mine Sandford Hill Mine No.2 Sandford Rifts East Sandford Hill Mine No.3 Lyncombe Shaft MCRA-SH-14 MCRA-SH-13 Ellis' Wonder Lyncombe Mine Gran's Discovery Saville Row Shaft No.3 Whispering Gallery Saville Row Shaft No.1 Shaft 120 SSSS-43-G South Rift Skeleton Rift Robert's Paradise Pyle Well SSSS-32-N Groof House Shafts Sandford Rake Sandford Gulf Fern Mine Scum Hole Rabbit Hole Pseudo Udders Hole
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Summit Fields, Sandford Hill.
| NGR: | ST 4331 5895 |
| WGS84: | 51.32681, -2.81500 |
| Length: | 18 m |
| Depth: | 18 m |
| Altitude: | 117 m |
| Tags: | Mine, Lost |
| Registry: | westmendip |
This Second World War excavation was developed to help plug the gap caused by dwindling overseas supplies. Managed by the Golden Valley Ochre & Oxide Co., in collaboration with the Via Gellia Colour Co., it was worked by three men from Derbyshire. The mine was serviced with a windlass and a rickety single track narrow gauge railway which carried the ochre across the south slope of the hill to a disused stone quarry adjoining Mapleton Lane. Here it was loaded into lorries for hauling to the Golden Valley works at Wick. The mine has now been completely filled in.
Alternate Names: Star Ochre Mine
Notes: Ref: M. Clarke, N. Gregory and A. Gray, Earth Colours
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