Bullaton Cottage, Ruin

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Notes: Close to Kelly Mine Tor there is this fascinating ruin just set on private land. Brooks (2016, p.24) explains that “Bullaton Cottage, on the hillside above the mine, has no proven connection with the mine despite a strong local tradition that it was the mine captain’s house. In 1851 the Hennock census records it being occupied by Samuel Wills, an agricultural labourer with a wife and three young sons. In 1881 farm labourer James Pike was living there, with wife, three children and a lodger.

Reference:

  • Brooks, T. (2016): Kelly Mine: And the ‘Shiny Ore’ Mines of the Wray Valley
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