Visitor group visit to ECTON HILL Staffordshire on

Visitor group visit to ECTON HILL Staffordshire on xxth Odtbrts 200 y ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

ECTON HILL • Where are we going? • Why should we go? • How do we get there? ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill - Where are we going? ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill - Where are we going? ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

ECTON HILL Why should we go? • Industrial heritage • Local History • Social History • Great views ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill – Industrial heritage • • Before the Dukes < 1760 The Dukes – 1760 - 1818 After the Dukes > 1818 Today ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill – Before the Dukes 1220 – William de Wrottesley – Ekedon 1575 – Cavendish involved 1580 – Burgoyne family buys land 1568 – Company of: Mines Royal Mineral and Battery Works 1622 – Gerard Malnes: “excellant copper ore” 1654 –Jeremiah Rhodes (Roades) 1665 –Gunpowder – a “first”. 1723 – 1760 Extensive developments ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton – The Dukes 1760 – 1818 Extensive development of ore body Discovered rich ore body – 15% Substantial profits – 1786 - £ 40, 000 pa ~£ 6 m pa Worked for own account Chatsworth House and Crescent at Buxton Innovation: Boulton & Watt engine in 1788 Copper used in brass and to sheath wooden hulls Copper sent Whiston ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill – The Dukes 4500 4000 Annual Ore Production 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 1760 1770 1780 1790 ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION 1800 1810

Ecton Hill – The Dukes ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton – Boulton & Watt ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton – Boulton & Watt ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Hill – After The Dukes 1818 > Date Company Copper Lead Zinc Gross Income Profit tons £ £ 1826 -38 Ecton Copper Co 1, 608 114 - 12, 050 1839 -46 Ecton Mine co 1, 283 73 1, 186 10, 178 1846 -51 Various 156 27 - 1, 253 1838 -50 Burgoyne Mining Co 152 8 20 3, 824 1851 -55 Duke of Devonshire 241 32 - 2, 551 1851 -57 Ecton Mountain Co 107 87 - 1, 984 -3, 134 1858 -61 Ecton Consolidated 23 19 - 375 +1, 638 1862 -66 New Ecton Mining 31 20 4. 5 481 -4, 669 1866 -68 Waterbank & Ecton 22 35 - 444 -1, 834 1868 -74 Ecton, Clayton & W 15 128 - 1, 423 -9, 704 1883 -89 Ecton Company Ltd 150 25 270 1, 667 -44, 250 ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION -7, 257

Ecton – Great views ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton – Great views ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Today • Bought by Geoff Cox in 1950’s • Used by MIMCU until 2000 (educational courses) • Placed in Trust in 2005 • Now educational courses - EHFSA ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton Visit - Programme PROGRAMME FOR VISIT BY Visitor Group TO ECTON HILL ON xx OCDTBRdec 2009 17. 30 – 17. 45 Visitors park and make way to Ecton Education Centre 17. 45 sharp Welcome and details of visit 17. 50 Depart for conducted visit to Ecton Hill: Geology and Engine House 18. 50 Return to Education Centre Underground visit to Salt’s Level in two groups 19. 45 Return to Education Centre 19. 50 Depart for Manifold Inn, Hulme End 20. 00 Supper served in Manifold Inn ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Ecton - Directions ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION