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	Scottish Mining Villages - Lead Mining
		Leadhills, a mining village in Crawford parish, S Lanarkshire, on Glengonner Water, 1 1/4 mile NNE of Wanlockhead, 5 miles WSW of Elvanfoot station, 7 SSW of Abington, and 45 SSW of Edinburgh.
		The ores of Leadhills, which belong to the Earl of Hopetoun, since 1842 have been worked with the aid of steam power and of improved smelting apparatus ; and in 1868 some 2 1/2 miles of underground railway were formed at a cost of £7213.
		Leadhills was visited by Thomas Pennant (1769), by Coleridge, Wordsworth, and his sister Dorothy (1803), by Miss Martineau (1852), and by Dr John Brown (1865).
	www.mining-villages.co.uk /120.html (1319 words)

	Leadhills - LoveToKnow 1911
		LEADHILLS, a village of Lanarkshire, Scotland, 54 m.
		The village is neat and well built, and contains a masonic hall and library, the latter founded by the miners about the middle of the 18th century.
		Allan Ramsay, the poet, and William Symington (1763-1831), one of the earliest adaptors of the steam engine to the purposes of navigation, were born at Leadhills.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Leadhills (164 words)

	Roll of Honour - Lanarkshire - Leadhills
		Leadhills is the second highest village in Scotland, being situated some 1300 feet up in the Southern Uplands in Lanarkshire, on the border with Dumfries and Galloway.
		According to the Family Memorial in Leadhills Cemetery, James’ wife Mary died at the early age of 43 in 1901; James lived to be 73, dying in 1926.
		William was born in Leadhills on January 9th 1895 and was the son of John and Mary Moffat Paterson who are recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as living at Harryburn Cottage, Lauder, Berwickshire.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Lanarkshire/Leadhills.html (1955 words)

	Leadhills Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Leadhills is not an imaginative name for a village located high in the Lowther Hills and founded on lead mining, but it is an apt one.
		Leadhills may not quite be Scotland's highest village, but it does have a number of unique claims to fame.
		The coming of the railway in 1901 was not enough to return the mines in the area to profitability, and mining activity in Leadhills ceased in 1928, though it continued for a while longer in Wanlockhead.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /leadhills/leadhills/index.html (578 words)

	LEADHILLS AND WANLOCKHEAD RAILWAY
		The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway Society was formed in 1983 to construct and operate a 2ft gauge tourist railway between two villages on the old standard gauge trackbed.
		The signal box at Leadhills is an interesting attraction due to the preservation of the mechanical equipment from the West Highland Line, and the use of the terra cotta facing bricks from the now demolished Risping Cleuch Viaduct built on the original line by 'Concrete Bob McAlpine' at the beginning of the century.
		Leadhills and Wanlockhead are in the Lowther Hills on the B797, between Clydesdale (M74) and Nithsdale (A76).
	www.leadhillsrailway.co.uk (702 words)

	GENUKI: Lanarkshire - Leadhills
		It is understood that the Library in Leadhills holds various papers relating to days of the mining industry and which may be of use to family historians.
		The railways came to Leadhills in 1902, when the Caledonian Railway built a line to carry the produce of the lead mines of the Wanlockhead and Leadhills areas to be processed in the Central Belt of Scotland.
		The chairman of the group spent some of his youth living in Leadhills and has memories of the original light railway which he has used to research and write a book which is available from the group - see their web-site for contact information.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/LKS/Leadhills/index.html (798 words)

	Historical perspective for Leadhills (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leadhills has a post office under Abington, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, an hotel, a good water supply, a public school, an excellent public library (1741), a Good Templar lodge, a brass band, a volunteer corps, a curl.
		The poet, Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), was a son of the superintendent of the mines, and at Leadhills passed the first fifteen years of his life; other natives were James Taylor (1753-1825), who suggested the power of steam in inland navigation, and James Martin, M.D. (17901875), who served as a surgeon in the Peninsular War.
		Leadhills was visited by Thomas Pennant (1769), by Coleridge, Wordsworth, and his sister Dorothy (1803), by Miss Martinean (1852), and by Dr John Brown (1865).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory4374.html (988 words)

	Leadhills Reading Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of the 23 founder members at Leadhills, all were miners except the minister and the schoolmaster.
		Allan Ramsay, who was a native of Leadhills, had already, in 1725, established a circulating library in the Luckenbooths of Edinburgh, and no doubt the idea came from him to his native village.
		Allan Ramsay was the son of Robert Ramsay, manager at Leadhills, and Alice Bowes; Robert Ramsay was the son of another Robert Ramsay, also manager at Leadhills, and Alice Bowes was the daughter of a Derbyshire man, who had been fetched down to Leadhills to teach the miners there.
	www.lowtherhills.fsnet.co.uk /about%20us.htm (512 words)

	Edinburgh Geologist - A visit to the Leadhills (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of course, it was internal fires, or at least the late Caledonian magamtic activity that led to the development of the veins in the Leadhills area.
		The Leadhills Wanlockhead area is also known for its zinc ore, but zinc was not sought after until 1788, thirty years after the article was written.
		At one time it is said all the lead from the Leadhills was sent to Holland where the silver was extracted, but subsequently the expense was found to overbalance the gain, and the precious metal was allowed to remain in the baser alloy.
	www.edinburghgeolsoc.org /z_43_03.html (2216 words)

	Leadhills : Southern Upland Way : Town Details
		Leadhills is part of the Hopetoun Estate and is in a conservation area.
		However Leadhills presents a different picture now, the population is increasing, houses are being rebuilt and renovated resulting in many young families taking up residence here.
		Leadhills which is one of 'Scotland’s high places' is ideally placed for touring.
	www.southernuplandway.com /area/town_detail.asp?TownID=281§ionid= (178 words)

	VisitLanarkshire \| information on Leadhills
		Although it's believed that the Romans were the first to mine the mineral deposits in the area, Leadhills probably didn't exist until the early 16th Century.
		Gold from Leadhills was of national importance - and was used to form the Regalia of Scotland, which is now on public display in Edinburgh Castle.
		Leadhills and Wanlockhead Steam Railway is Britain's highest adhesion railway, reaching 1498 feet above sea level - and visitors can now ride on the 2ft gauge tourist railway.
	www.visitlanarkshire.com /towns/leadhills.aspx (125 words)

	Overview of Leadhills (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A village of upper Clydesdale, Leadhills is situated at an altitude of 395m (1296 feet) in the Lowther Hills, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Abington.
		The industry was developed on a large scale by the Hope family in the 16th century and by the mid 1800s large smelting complexes were in operation in Leadhills and nearby Wanlockhead, which is now the location of the Museum of Scottish Lead Mining.
		The poet Allan Ramsay was born in Leadhills in 1684.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townfirst4374.html (212 words)

	Anyone been to Leadhills and/or Dumbarton, Scotland? : Europe Forum - Travellerspoint
		Both Leadhills and Dumbarton are near where I live, I don't know a great deal about Leadhills however as it's very small as far as I understand it and I've never been there myself.
		There's a castle there which is reasonably significant as far as British history is concerned, but to be perfectly honest the town itself wouldn't be a place you would visit without a particular reason as there isn't a great deal there today aside from residential areas.
		I found a half decent link on Leadhills if you haven't read it, I have to say that it looks a lot nicer than Dumbarton and actually fairly interesting, but to me it's always just been a name on a map.
	www.travellerspoint.com /forum.cfm?thread=30376 (248 words)

	leadhills & wanlockhead
		The oldest man to live in Scotland was from Leadhills.
		He was a lead miner and is buried at Leadhills.
		Leadhills, formerly a miners' community in its entirety, has developed as a growing small community with other interests, while maintaining it's mining heritage.
	www.curriehj.freeserve.co.uk /sitefoto.htm (364 words)

	Iss3m
		Leadhills is famous for several notable aspects - William Symington, John Taylor, who it is said lived to be 137 years and for the Library, said to be the earliest subscription library in the UK, starting in 1741.
		The town of Leadhills has probably not changed very much from the days of old - and some of the houses in Symington Street are from the days of when Lead was mined from these parts.
		William Symington's father was described as being a 'practical mechanic and superintendent of the Mining Company at Leadhills and he was probably the 'Mr Symington' who visited Carron ironworks in 1785 to purchase machinery for the 'Mines Company.
	www.geocities.com /symingtonfhs/Iss3m.htm (7646 words)

	RailServe.com: What's New
		Launceston Steam Railway - 2.5-mile narrow gauge steam railway links the historic town of Launceston with the hamlet of Newmills along the trackbed of the old North Cornwall Railway; Cornwall, UK
		Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway - 2-foot gauge diesel railway on the former Caledonian Railway trackbed in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, UK
		Wells & Walsingham Light Railway - Longest 10-1/4" narrow gauge steam railway in the world, operating on the former Great Eastern trackbed between Wells and Walsingham; Norfolk, UK
	www.railserve.com /New (1182 words)

	In My Opinion
		Leadhills is a an old lead-mining village high in the Lowther Hills in southern Scotland south of Glasgow.
		I was given the opportunity to do so by Alfie Ward who is developing a business which gives the chance for visitors to Ayrshire, Glasgow and Edinburgh to try their hand at the real thing, for Leadhills is not more than an hour’s drive from any of them.
		At 4,354 yards for 18 holes at a par of 66 the course might seem ridiculously short, but I could not persuade a guttie drive to pass 150 yards and my iron shots flew about 1/3 as far as the equivalent shot with modern equipment.
	www.golfclubatlas.com /opinionrowlinson3.html (929 words)

	Crosbie Family
		Leadhills has been a lead-mining area since Roman times, and it is likely that John’s father Robert Crosby was also a miner, making at least four generations of miners in the family.
		An iron-works was established in Muirkirk in 1787, based on ironstone and coal deposits in the area, so it is likely that Robert Crosby came here for work, probably on the mining side.
		The monumental inscription for the burial ground at Leadhills have been transcribed, and on No 125 there is the following inscription.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /jewelian/Crosbie.htm (688 words)

	UK-GolfGuide : A golfer's Guide to Leadhills Golf Club, Leadhills in Lanarkshire, Scotland
		Please click here for a popup page containing a more detailed map of the location of Leadhills Golf Club as well as all the other clubs within a 30 mile radius of it.
		Please also note that all green fee discount schemes are subject to certain restrictions so if you do decide to purchase any, please ensure that you check the small print before turning up at a club with voucher in hand.
		If you know that any of the information shown for Leadhills Golf Club is inaccurate or out of date, please tell UK-GolfGuide so that we can update our files.
	www.uk-golfguide.com /scotland/25978.html (384 words)

	Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a 2ft (610mm) gauge line in Lanarkshire, is laid on the trackbed of a former Caledonian Railway branch which lead off the main line between Carlisle and Edinburgh at Elvanfoot.
		The "preserved" section runs for about 1 km between Leadhills and Wanlockhead and is Britain's highest adhesion railway.
		Alford Valley - Bo'ness and Kinneil - Caledonian - Keith and Dufftown - Leadhills and Wanlockhead - Isle of Mull - Royal Deeside - Scottish Industrial Rly.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Leadhills_%26_Wanlockhead_Railway (335 words)

	The Miners of Leadhills
		The Leadhills Mining Co. give up its lease to a syndicate who float the Leadhills Silver-lead Mining and Smelting Co. It starts work on a new shaft, puts in new plant at the dressing floor and smelt mill, and claims £5,000,000 worth of gold lies in the moors.
		The Leadhills miners pan sufficient gold for a presentation ring, but the Company’s attempts to find gold on a commercial scale are unsuccessful.
		The Leadhills Co. is wound up in 1929, and the Wanlockhead mines close in 1931.
	dialspace.dial.pipex.com /town/green/gsk58/leadandlabour/prelim2.htm (1512 words)

	Calcite crystal
		Back in the 1920s, when the Calcite crystal was uncovered, the mines of Wanlockhead and Leadhills were important sources of lead.
		The particular conditions of pressure, temperature and acidity in the Leadhills ore field have created a collection of secondary lead minerals that is quite unique.
		The mineral Macphersonite from Leadhills was named after Harry MacPherson, Head of Mineralogy at the Museum in 1984.
	www.nms.ac.uk /calcitecrystal.aspx (197 words)

	Leadhills
		Although I visited Leadhills for this article I am sure that the painstaking efforts made by all volunteer are parallel throughout the region irrespective of their age, sex or class.
		To someone like myself who originates from a large city where there seems to be a fire station on every corner, this small wooden structure was the type of building which I wouldn’t usually recognise as a fire station.
		However, to the 250 inhabitants of Leadhills it provides the comfort and piece of mind that within it’s frame is the equipment that may make all the difference between the saving of their lives and property should a fire occur.
	www.btinternet.com /~graeme.kirkwood/SFB/E51.htm (627 words)

	Almond Valley and Leadhills
		Built by the Caledonian Railway, it was closed completely by the LMS at the end of 1938.
		Its narrow gauge successor is based at Leadhills station, and extends westwards to the summit on the county boundary, currently the limit of the track.
		A quick guided tour of the loco shed was available on return to Leadhills.
	www.geoffspages.co.uk /raildiary/avlh/index.htm (771 words)

	RRCPC Newsletter Vol.41 No.1 Article 4
		Underneath the villages of Wanlockhead and Leadhills in Dumfrieshire's Lowther Hills lies a multi-levelled labyrinth of lead and copper workings which gave weekends of adventure to a bunch of pimply snotty faced youths in the late sixties.
		The Glengonnar Copper Mine was down in a depression at the roadside between Wanlockhead and Leadhills.
		Next stop was Leadhills village to look up an old acquaintance who I haven't seen for 25 years; founder member of the Glasgow Speleological Society and local mine expert.
	www.rrcpc.org.uk /newsletters/NL_V41_N1_A4.htm (1553 words)

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	www.tiptopjob.com /tiptop/links/jb/education_training_jobs.htm/t/3380 (535 words)

	Lettershaws Farm - Links
		Guide to Britain's highest golf course, at Leadhills, just a few miles away from Lettershaws.
		Originally built in 1900 by the Caledonian Railway Company for transporting refined lead to the central belt of Scotland, it now offers the chance to take a scenic train ride between Leadhills and Wanlockhead.
		Leadhills Library is Britain's oldest subscription library, and is open to the public between May and September (various afternoons).
	www.plenderleith.com /lettershaws/links.html (376 words)

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