Zinc mining at Worle, Somerset

[Peter Burgess]

A question has just been asked on the mining-history mailing group about zinc mines at Worle, Somerset. Does anyone here know anything about them? I'll relay any information to the group if you are not a member of it. The enquirer was after any published material on early-modern zinc mining in the area.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0702&L=mining-history&T=0&P=4140

 

[andymorgan]

I hail from Worle!  :-[ :-[
    If I recall correctly there may be some information about it in 'The Mines of Mendip' by J.W. Gough, 1967. I don't own this book, so I cannot check, however I recall a friend telling me he read about these mines. I'll ask him if he can confirm this and if not, where he read about them.