The German mines at Caldbeck were part of the operations of the Company of Mines Royal in Caldbeck, which introduced German miners from modern day Austria and Bavaria into the Lake District in 1563, though earlier works in the area are thought to have been begun in the 1300s.
One of the German miners Cornelius de Vos left to set up gold mines in Scotland.
In July 1594 Emanuel Hochstetter sent Steffan Mur, who managed stamping mills to process the ore at Caldbeck and Newlands, to Nicholas Williamson at Sheffield, a steward of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
[3] Steffan Mur married a woman from Keswick, Isobel Wood, and their family is documented.
However, recent fieldwork combined with records from archives has allowed identification of the principal mines.