Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff, which make Killhope winner of the Family Friendly Museum of the Year, Most Welcoming Experience and Outstanding Customer Service Siver Award, will make sure you get the most from your visit. Killhope is famous for its huge working waterwheel, but there is much more to Killhope than a waterwheel. You experience the "mineshop" where miners lived for the week and slept three and four to a bed. You work as a "washerboy" separating lead ore from waste. You see the working machinery which Fred Dibnah admired in the "jigger house". But above all, Killhope's award-winning mine tour is unique.
From the moment you put on our hard hats, cap-lamps and wellingtons, this part of your visit becomes an adventure!
Our guides take you plodging through the water of the tunnel to marvel at what the miners achieved deep underground. The highlight is when you come face to face with an underground waterwheel turning in its own cavern.
Unforgettable! You should stroll round Killhope's woodland paths, and take a break in "Killhope Kitchen" where Pip serves up home made soups, pasties and cakes.
Our gift shop stocks a wide range of books, maps, keepsakes and souvenirs.
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