Peter,
Your query about packhorses seems to have fallen flat. I cannot
claim much knowledge of horses - I rode one once and have never
been so scared in my life and it developed a very loud puncture.
The term Dales Pony is, I fancy, a modern one. The horses used by
lead miners were generally called galloways (not the cows) and as far
as I know came from that part of south-west Scotland.
There is a body called:
South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust,
The Barn,
Mankinholes,
TODMORDEN
OL14 6HR
England
Regards
Mike
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Mike Gill
President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
Britain's foremost mining history society at:-
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html
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