The route map of our walk

Surrender Bridge, mine was the only car in the car park today

Approaching the old mine workings at Old Gang

One of the old hearths where they would have heated the ore to extract the lead, the hole on the back is where the flue would have been, it went several hundred feet up the hillside behind, the gases produced by the 'smelting' were very dangerous as they were sulphrous

This was the main furnace building, it housed four hearth's like in the picture above, and was capable of producing over 2000 tonnes of lead each year

The outside of the furnace building, a lot of the stone was removed from the site in the 1930's to build the Methodist Chapel in Muker

Looking back down onto the Smelting mill buildings as I headed further along the valley

A view from higher up the valley, note the 'peat store' building on the hillside

A close up of what remains of the old 'peat store' its a very impressive building, over 390 feet long and 20 feet wide, it could store enough peat to keep the four hearth's, in the smelt mill below, going for three years!

Level House bridge, here you have a choice of either continuing along the valley into Flincher Gill or you can head over Brownsey Moor and drop down into Gunnerside Gill near to the old Bunting Mine

A close up shot of a Red Grouse, I was very lucky to get this shot, normally Tim scare's all the wild life away!

The entrance to an old mine shaft, these are very dangerous places, DO NOT EXPLORE!

Looking across to Rogan's Seat as I climbed up onto Great Pinseat, there not much out there apart from bogs and heather

The summit of Great Pinseat, scarred by hundreds of years of lead mining

Tim was enjoying his walk as usual

Looking east from Great Pinseat, Calver Hill is on the right with Fremington Edge in the background. The smoke in the centre of the picture is the heather been burnt to provide feeding ground for the grouse

A close up shot of the burning heather, these are controlled so only small area's of heather are burnt

The remains of the Surrender Bridge smelt mill

Looking back to the Surrender Bridge Smelt Mill from the car park

The sunset seen as I drove home!