Modern gun battery.
A volunteer gun battery corps was established for Laxey in 1864.
The battery, which was completed in 1865, was located in a small rectangular enclosure measuring 18 by 15m. The Ordnance Survey First Edition mapping of 1867 marks the enclosure (OS Plot no. 2029) on the foreshore near the south end of the beach. Access would have been through a gateway in the easterly corner and by unmade track across the top of the beach leading back towards the village. The site was marked by a flagstaff, also recorded by the OS ('F.S.').
The Laxey corps had been disbanded by 1872. No obvious remains of the battery survive and the site is now an open public area under lawn.
The site of a post-medieval chapel in Laxey. It is shown as a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map and has an A.D. 1850 datestone on its façade.
The site of a 19th century bleach field. Dr L.S. Garrad notes that early photographs show linen bleaching on the floor of the glen near St Georges mill, before the electric railway was built through the area.
The site of a post medieval weir. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a weir at this location. The weir pooled water in the Laxey River, allowing it to be led off along a 300m race to a mill which began life in textile use (spinning) before being converted for paper-making and ultimately extended and converted into a power station serving the Manx Electric Railway. It is now used as a workshop.
The site of a modern watermill. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race and an unmarked industrial complex at this location. The building began life as a water-powered spinning mill in the 18th century, but was converted for use as a paper mill in the 1820s, operated by a syndicate led by a Manx-based businessman named Lewthwaite, with partners including William Walker, a paper wholesaler and retailer based in Liverpool.
A succession of proprietors operated and extended the mill through the 19th century until it was converted for use as a power station serving the Manx Electric Railway. It now serves as a workshop. The complex was served by water drawn from a weir 300 metres upstream along a mill race. A short 30 metre tail race returned water to the river immediately downstream
The site of a modern paper mill. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race and an unmarked industrial complex at this location. The building began life as a water-powered spinning mill in the early 19th century, but was converted for use as a paper mill in the 1820s, operated by a syndicate led by a Manx-based businessman named Lewthwaite, with partners including William Walker, a paper wholesaler and retailer based in Liverpool. A succession of proprietors operated and extended the mill through the 19th century until it was converted for use as a power station serving the Manx Electric Railway. It now serves as a workshop.
The site of a modern textile mill. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race and an unmarked industrial complex at this location.
The building began life as a water-powered spinning mill in the 18th century, but was converted for use as a paper mill in the 1820s. It was subsequently substantially extended through the 19th century until converted for use as a power station serving the Manx Electric Railway. It now serves as a workshop.
The site of a modern power station. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race and an unmarked industrial complex at this location. The building began life as a water-powered spinning mill in the early 19th century, but was converted for use as a paper mill in the 1820s. A succession of proprietors operated and extended the mill through the 19th century until it was converted for use as a power station serving the Manx Electric Railway. It now serves as a workshop.
The site of a modern mill race. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race at this location. For mapping purposes the grid reference provided marks the tail of the race: its start is adjacent to the weir (see 2373.40). The mill race served a spinning mill built in the 18th century which was converted for paper manufacturing in the early 1820s. The race is still extant throughout its length.
P.M.C. Kermode reported the location of a burial cist 'said to be in the gully running north from Snaefell Mine' thus setting it apart from other cairns and mounds at west end of Laxey Glen.
The site of a group of mounds which have been interpreted as possible medieval shieling mounds, cairns or industrial spoil tips. They are found in the area centred on SC 40658722. Five shieling mounds are indicated at this position on Gelling's distribution map
The features do not look like burial mounds. As far as could be seen none have ditches. Some are sharply pointed and others are irregular in shape but as they are covered by a heavy growth of fern they were difficult to assess. They have been much burrowed by rabbits and are evidently mainly composed of earth though a few stones were visible. The area is covered by leats to the mine with which these mounds may have some connection.
A - Conical. Diameter 6.0 metres and 0.8 metres high.
B - Appears to be a small mound cut in two by a leat.
C - Elongated and shapeless. 11.0 metres north-south and 5.0 metres east-west.
D - Similar to A. Diameter 8.0 metres and minimum height 0.8 metres.
E - Elongated average diameter 8.0 metres north-south. Minimum height is 0.5 metres.
Two groups of shieling mounds were recorded in this area by P.S. Gelling. In the area of SC 403871 a group of 9 shieling mounds were recorded and in the area of SC 403873 a group of 5 shieling mounds were also found.
