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Magpie Mine is located in the Derbyshire village of Sheldon. Records show that mining was taking place from at least 1739 and it is said to be over 300 years old. The period between the 1820`s and 1830`s saw serious disputes between the miners of Magpie and the nearby Maypitts mine over rights to work the Great Red Soil vein. The miners would occasionally break through into each other’s underground workings as a consequence they would light a fire to smoke each other out of their workings. In 1833 this lead to fatal consequences as three Red Soil miners suffocated to death
24 Magpie miners were put on trial for their murder, several were freed immediately. Eventually all were acquitted because of the difficulty in identifying the individual culprits, and the provocative actions of the Maypitt miners themselves. The mine closed in 1835.
In 1839, John Taylor, the famous Cornish mining engineer was brought in to re-open the Magpie Mine, which now incorporated the Great Redsoil workings. He deepened the Main Shaft to 208 metres, and also installed a 40-inch Cornish pumping engine. When this proved inadequate, he proposed to replace it with a 70-inch engine, but the proprietors could not agree. Some felt that a sough (a drainage tunnel) would be a better solution, and appeals to the Duke of Devonshire to adjudicate fell on deaf ears. it was not until 1873 that construction of the sough started. It took eight years to drive from the River Wye near Ashford-in-the-Water to meet the Main Shaft, a distance of 2km.
Production of lead continued on and off into the 20th century. and with the end of the Korean War and the fall in the price of imported lead, the mine closed for the last time in 1954
The surface remains are extensive and were taken over by Peak District Mines Historical Society in 1962.
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