Bonsor Dressing Floors by munki-boy
Bonsor Dressing Floors
Bonsor Dressing Floors is in The Lake District National Park in England.
Where copper ore from the Coniston coppermines was broken down to smaller fragments for smelting into copper. There are many remains of the old workings and some historic items preserved including old mine carts.
Highly visible when making ones way up the Coppermines Valley for there are enormous spoil heaps before the Bonsor Dressing Floors that have been swept down the valley to clear a flat area of land for the buildings and dressing floors.
Created: 27 November 2016 Edited: 29 November 2023
Bonsor Dressing Floors
Bonsor Dressing Floors LiDAR Map
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Local History around Bonsor Dressing Floors
There are some historic monuments around including:
Cairnfield 210m south west of Throng Moss ReservoirRoman road up Wrynose PassMickleden Beck prehistoric cairnfield and field system, funerary cairn and a medieval dispersed settlement centred 840m south west of Pike of StickleLong Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell FootTwo rifle ranges on Silver HowConiston copper minesRifle Range target and Marker's Hut, 150m north west of Blea MossGreenburn copper mines and associated ore processing worksDike, circles and cairns on Bleaberry HawsSeven Intakes medieval dispersed settlement 210m south west of Fell FootYewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low YewdaleMoot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little LangdaleCairns and enclosure on The Rigg, BanisheadCairns on Foul ScrowTwo bloomeries, 340m and 570m NNE of Hoathwaite Landing on Coniston WaterThe Langdale Boulders, two prehistoric rock art sites in Great Langdale 250m south of Harry PlaceCastle Howe hillfort, Little LangdaleRoman road in Wrynose Bottom.
