Bachelor's Hall Mine, Devon
Princetown: grid reference SX597734
Located a mile southwest of Two Bridges on Dartmoor, Bachelor's Hall worked a number of narrow tin lodes from Engine Shaft, Ann Shaft and Footway Shaft. The mine commenced work in the 1790's but was closed again by 1800. Bachelor's Hall worked again between 1845-46 and again 1853 and 1862.
There are no records of output.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Great Whiteworks (approx. 3.1 km; TIN)
Nunns Cross (approx. 3.5 km; TIN)
Eylesbarrow (approx. 4.3 km; TIN)
Gobbett Tin Mine (approx. 4.9 km; TIN)
Brimpts North (approx. 5.9 km; TIN)
Hexworthy (approx. 6.0 km; TIN)
Kit (approx. 6.8 km; TIN)
Willsworthy Mine (approx. 7.2 km; COPPER, SILVER & COBALT)
Brimpts South (approx. 7.2 km; TIN)
Wheal Cumpston (approx. 7.5 km; TIN)
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