A Rainbow Over Ruin: The Legacy of Great Rundale’s Baryte Mines

A rainbow graces the Pennine valley of Great Rundale, near Dufton—a charming touch to a landscape turned into an industrial graveyard. The old lead and barytes mines have left their mark: adits, crumbling shafts, stone hut ruins, and vast heaps of rocky waste. The track winding up the dale carries the faint memory of men trudging out from Duft ...

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A Rainbow Over Ruin: The Legacy of Great Rundale’s Baryte Mines

A rainbow graces the Pennine valley of Great Rundale, near Dufton—a charming touch to a landscape turned into an industrial graveyard. The old lead and barytes mines have left their mark: adits, cr…

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