MalachiteBin Combe, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK
UK Grid Reference: ST185391
Latitude: 51°8'41"N
Longitude: 3°9'54"W
Copper is said to have been extracted at Bincombe between 1690 and 1724. Other licences were granted in 1755 and 1758 to mine on Friarn manor in Bincombe, and a mine there, possibly on Dodington manor lands, was operating near Walford's Gibbet [ST172394] by 1790.
The NGR given here is for Binscombe itself, rather than being a specific mineral location.
References
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6 - Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes), R W Dunning, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, M C Siraut 1992
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