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- "In the seventeenth century prospecting for lead was taking place throughout the Dales area, and the industry was developing as new methods allowed workings to go deeper underground. Prospecting certainly took place in the Carlton area, as Carlton Moor and the neighbouring fells are peppered with the remains of small workings, but no worthwhile deposits were discovered. The only lead mine of any size in Coverdale was between Braithwaite Hall and the river, opposite Coverham. This mine was working in 1670. There was no smelt mill in Coverdale, and the Braithwaite lead was smelted at the mill in Waldendale whose ruins can still be seen at Cote, at the bottom of the track from Carlton. In nearby places, including West Burton and Kettlewell,, the lead mining industry developed and provided very unhealthy employment""Braithwaite means 'broad clearing', which is quite apt as the area would have been forest around medieval times. It is a listed building and actually doesn't appear in any records until around 1610. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, the land was passed to the Crown before it was leased to a farmer. The Ward family took over in the late sixteenth century, followed by Thomas Horner of Coverdale."
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