More information : Between mid September and late November 2000, English Heritage carried out an analytical field investigation of the surface remains of Greenburn Mine; the survey was requested and partly funded by the landowners, the National Trust (Event record 1335820) (1). The best-preserved building, which comprises an accommodation block, office and workshop (NY 20 SE 9) serves as a parent record for the other components of the complex.
An inclined tramway, descended the southern side of the Greenburn Valley for some 500m at an average gradient of 40%, from the middle level on the Pave York Vein copper lode to the main processing area of the mine. The tramway is thought to have been constructed c.1906 and to have been dismantled by 1908. It can now be traced as a slight embankment for most of its length, although at least seven timber sleepers survive towards the lower end, and the lower terminus was carried on a pier-like drystone embankment up to 2.7m high.
For further information, see the report at Level 3 standard available through the NMR archive, which includes reproductions of 19th-century documents, extracts from the survey at 1:500 scale, photographs and interpretative drawings. (1)
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