order. Awards The museum has won several awards: it was the North East's Small Visitor Attraction of the Year in 2008, and was the inaugural winner of the Guardian's Family-Friendly Museum award in 2004. Other lead mining remains in the area Other interpretive sites in the area are the Heritage Centre at Allenheads, in Northumberland, and the Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre, a short distance away in Cumbria. Numerous traces of Weardale's lead mining industry can still be seen and the Durham Dales Centre in Stanhope produces guides to a Lead Mining Trail that covers many of the more accessible sites. Other disused lead mines in County Durham are: Low Slitt Mine, Westgate Middlehope Shield, Westgate Brandon Walls Mine, Rookhope Rookhope Old Smelt Mill Feldon Smelt Mill Coldberry Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale Middle Greenlaws, Daddry Shield Derwent Lead Mines Lady Rake Mine, Harwood Greenhurth Mine, Harwood Pike Law Mines, Newbiggin, Teesdale References External links Killhope – official site Lead mining in the United Kingdom Museums in County Durham Museums established in 1984 Mining museums in England 1984 establishments in England Stanhope, County Durham