Lydford: grid reference SX533852

Notable minerals: Cassiterite.

A tin and lead mine situated just to the east of Lydford, on the slopes of Bray Tor in northwest Dartmoor. The mine worked between 1849 and 1852 and was named after the mine captain’s wife, but it never amounted to anything. Indeed Mining historian H. G. Dines reports it as ‘The mine appears to have been little more than a prospect’ and records no figures but it was noted for fine cassiterite specimens. After various attempts to restart the mine as part of North Dartmoor Consols it was finally abandoned in about 1880.