Rookhope Smelting Mill
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Rookhope Smelting Mill
Rookhope Arch in County Durham currently stands alone in a field.
Originally this arch was one in a line of six, built to support a horizontally running chimney which extended for a mile and a half up the adjacent hillside. The chimney carried lead fumes from the old lead smelting works which occupied this site from 1740.
This reconstruction shows the mill in the 1880s when the lead works was at its biggest, having recently been extended to accomodate additional furnaces.
Rookhope Arch in County Durham currently stands alone in a field.
Originally this arch was one in a line of six, built to support a horizontally running chimney which extended for a mile and a half up the adjacent hillside. The chimney carried lead fumes from the old lead smelting works which occupied this site from 1740.
This reconstruction shows the mill in the 1880s when the lead works was at its biggest, having recently been extended to accomodate additional furnaces.
