ArtOfGov

Where the internet becomes useful is when it is the domain of expert amateurs, or people who share similar interests, physical space and ideas.

Went hiking yesterday across Lilswood Moor; wind-swept and a silence which is so striking because it confronts you with a realisation of how noisy and frenetic modern society is. There is a blissful peacefulness and solitude that is rare to find.

The area is full of the traces of the lead mining industry.

This creator of this site has taken old Ordnance Survey maps and put together a good resource on the industrial archeology of the north-east.