A rare chance to look inside one of the Lake District’s most important industrial heritage sites is being offered this month.
The processing mill at Force Crag Mine, near Keswick, will open to visitors on Saturday, September 12, as part of Heritage Open Days.
Force Crag was the last working metal-ore mine in the Lake District before closing in 1991 and is now both a Scheduled Monument and a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Its processing mill contains what the National Trust describes as the most complete collection of metal-ore mining machinery preserved in situ anywhere in England.
Visitors will be able to join hour-long tours of the mill and learn how rock brought out of the mine was turned into a finished product.
The underground workings themselves are inaccessible because the tunnels have collapsed.
The free event runs from 10am to 2pm and no booking is required.
The mill lies at the end of a two-mile unsurfaced track in Coledale, normally reached on foot or by bicycle.
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