Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum

A Great Day out - visit them they need you!

What a lovely little place for a visit this is! Friendly staff (all happy) fascinating mining history in various rooms. The panning for minerals in a stream was brilliant as was the short train ride. ...

An extremely geeky but rather lovely visit.

On a rainy day in Keswick, with a poorly 7 year old and a toddler, we had a look on Tripadvisor for what on earth to do. A steam train and mining equipment - what could go wrong? And with those limite...

A lovely local place

A lovely place to visit with locals including locals in charge so lots of knowledge. The machine graveyard is interesting with realisation of size and scale. Tucked away in the hills, you’d never know...

Santa train

A great day trying to find Santa with success! Very organised. Lovely volunteers. A n enjoyable experience and we even got mince pies and mulled wine for the grown ups! Santa was lovely speaking to e...

Potential to be better.

We paid £9 to enter the museum that was basically one room with various tools and rock samples. We were informed the train would take a 25 minute journey to the quarry but in all fairness it was a 5-7...