Portal Of Barratts Incline

GRASSINGTON OLD MOOR LANE SE 06 NW (east side) Yarnbury 2/29 Portal of Barratt's Incline GV II Tunnel portal. Dated 1828. By Captain Barratt for the Grassington lead mines. Edge-tooled ashlar blocks. A narrow opening approximately 3 metres wide and 3 metres high of well-cut voussoirs with slightly projecting narrower keystone. Projecting band and 3 massive parapet coping stones, the central stone having a smoothly-tooled central panel with the incised date "1828". Captain Barratt was the local agent and engineer supervising the lead mining from 1818, a period when major reorganisation of the mines was taking place. He introduced sophisticated new techniques of ore dressing and invented the forerunner of the mechanical jig. The incline was driven into a 20 fathom network and introduced the use of ponies for drawing the ore out of the mine. The whole scheme was completed in 1833. A. Raistrick, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, 1973, plll. J.H. Dickinson, Mines and T'Miners, 1972,p20.

Listing NGR: SE0155065936