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Lead was mined in the surrounding hills. This is the Wolfcleugh mine near Rookhope – all around here there were mine shafts and pit heaps.

Notes

A ‘cleugh’ is a northern English/southern Scottish dialect word for a narrow rocky valley. There have been no wolves in this valley for hundreds of years, but it is still a wild and desolate place – you can easily imagine wolves being there!

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