Laxey Wheel // Isle of Man (4K Drone)

A Seagulls view of the Isle of Man. The Laxey Wheel, the largest surviving original working waterwheel in the world, set into the hillside above the village of Laxey on the Isle of Man. Also known as "Lady Isabella," the wheel was built in 1854 to pump water from the Glen Mooar shaft of the Great Laxey Mines, and was named after the wife of the island's then-Lieutenant Governor, Charles Hope. Designed by engineer Robert Casement, it measures an enormous 72 feet 6 inches in diameter and still turns roughly three times a minute. A waterwheel was used because the Isle of Man had no local coal to power a steam pump, with water fed up the tower as an inverted syphon to drive the wheel. At its peak the mine employed over 600 workers, producing lead, copper, silver and zinc until it closed in 1929. Today the wheel is cared for by Manx National Heritage as part of the Great Laxey Wheel & Mines Trail. 🇮🇲 00:00 - Google Earth Zoom In Intro 00:06 - Mines Road 00:53 - Laxey Wheel anti-clockwise 02:34 - Laxey Wheel clockwise 04:17 - Fly over 04:58 - Back to Mines Road 06:09 - End Screen Outro #isleofman #manx #landscape #drone #dji #lensofmann 🇮🇲