NORTH OF ENGLAND LEAD MINING MUSEUM (KILLHOPE, COWSHILL, UPPER WEARDALE, COUNTY DURHAM, ENGLAND)

“A visit to Killhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum, is a unique and unforgettable experience. Killhope is a fully restored nineteenth century lead mine, where you experience for yourself the life and work of the lead mining families of the Pennine dales. Killhope winner of the Family Friendly Museum of the Year, Most Welcoming Experience and Outstanding Customer Service Siver Award, will make sure you get the most from your visit. Killhope is famous for its huge working waterwheel, but there is much more to Killhope than a waterwheel. You experience the “mineshop” where miners lived for the week and slept three and four to a bed. You work as a “washerboy” separating lead ore from waste. You see the working machinery which Fred Dibnah admired in the “jigger house”. But above all, Killhope”s award-winning mine tour is unique.”

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