Ty'n-y-ffridd Slate Mine

[Anthony Britner]

Location
SH628677

Directions
Park in Rachub at the playground and follow the road uphill and round to High street. Head uphill here and take a right at the top of the road into a field, head up over the hill in front of you, the mine is there.
Access
None required

Suggested Equipment
None.

Length
Adit one 150m max
aditional adits, Not found, on this visit.

Flood risk
Adit one is flooded to around 6 inches from the enterance, does not appear to get any higher.


Mine Attributes
Slate.

Description
Adit one. A short mostly featurless slate adit acessed via an open stope and a crawling entrance with a dead sheep located a short distance inside. The adit quickly opens up to a 7ft by 7ft adit which runs for about 150m at which point it goes blind. At the end are 2 6 inch rusty pipes stood vertically. Just before the end is a small chamber. There is also a geocache by here.


Unexplored Passages
Another open stope is visible on aerial photographs. there may be another adit there.
a 3rd adit may have been located in a nearby quarried area.

Digs
none

Links

[John Nicholson]

This is the nearest adit to where I live.  There are two others near by but not of any interest.