Laxey
Salmon River of Laxey as it is known, has represented the Island on so many magazine covers, brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, radio and television programmes that it has become synonymous with the Isle of Man as the famous kippers or the TT Races.
Built up over the centuries the village sprawls along the sides of a deep glen, running down from the mine workings in its upper reaches, to the tiny harbour at the North end of a wide bay. Our Viking friends found Laxey to be a bountiful stopping off place on their roamings, hence the name. The biggest industry the village has ever had was the mines and between 1876 and 1882 the Great Laxey Mines paid out the highest total in dividends of all their competitor lead mines in the British Isles. Nowadays the village is a very pleasant place to live, giving the visitor a glimpse of a bygone era.
Author of this Article: Isleofman Dot Com Ltd
In this area:
- Laxey Glen
- Garwick Glen
- Lonan
- Laxey
- Baroose
- Injaigyn
- Laxey Wheel