Image gallery
Wheal Basset Stamps. Area: A5.
Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council. Bedford Square, Tavistock. Area: A10ii Botallack arsenic labyrinth. Area: A1 Botallack mine count house. Area: A1 Botallack from the air. Area: A1 Botallack overview. Area: A1 Carn Praunter stamps and calciner. Area: A1 Crowns engine houses, Botallack. Area: A1 Crowns pumping engine house, Botallack. Area: A1 De Dunstanville Memorial. Area: A5 Devon Great Consols. Area: A10ii Geevor headframe. Area: A1 Geevor mill interior. Area: A1 Godolphin House. Area: A3i Great Flat Lode landscape. Area: A5 Greenburrow engine house. Area: A1 Gunnislake Clitters mine – Riverside engine house. Area: A10ii Holman’s Rock Drill works. Area: A5 King Edward Mine. Area: A5 Marriott’s Shaft complex. Area: A5 Morwellham, wagons on the ore quay. Area: A10ii Morwellham wheel. Area: A10ii Morwellham, Garlandstone moored at the ore quay. Area: A10ii Nangiles adit 2. Area: A6i Prince of Wales Shaft engine house - Phoenix United Mine. Area: A9. Scorrier Methodist Chapel. Area: A6i Smallholdings near Carnmenellis. Area: A4 Soft Sunset, Wheal Owles. Area: A1 Taylor’s Shaft, EPAL. Area: A5i. Towanroath Shaft engine house, Wheal Coates. Area: A7 Treffry Viaduct, Luxulyan Valley. Area: A8i Trevarno House. Area: A3i Trevithick Statue, Camborne. Area: A5 West Basset Stamps. Area: A5
Wheal Call wheelpit. Area: A1 Wheal Coates Sunset. Area: A7
Wheal Edward Sunset. Area: A1 Wheal Peevor pumping & stamps engine houses. Area: A5ii
British NGR: SW 69122 39894 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 50" N - 05° 14' 15" W (centre)
Wheal Basset Stamps is situated along the Great Flat Lode, so named due to the shallow angle of its dip from the vertical. The stamps battery (formerly between the two central buildings) crushed the ore with fine separation taking place in the Frue Vanner house (1908) to the right. © Cornwall Council/Barry Gamble
British NGR: SX 48174 74445 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°32' 59" N - 05° 08' 40" W (centre)
Bedford Square lies at the heart of the town of Tavistock and has many fine 19th century buildings which are an impressive legacy to Francis Russell, seventh Duke of Bedford, whose statue is depicted. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
British NGR: SW 36399 33222, Lat/Long: 50°08' 25" N - 05° 41' 26" W
Constructed c1908 during a reworking of Botallack Mine, the labyrinth comprises multiple chambers to enable the condensing and collection of the then saleable arsenic oxide; the site is shown here after the completion of extensive consolidation work in 2005. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
British NGR: 36524 33205, Lat/Long: 50°08' 24" N - 05° 41' 19" W
This was the administrative focus of the mine where day-to-day management decisions were made. Now in the ownership of the National Trust, the building was sympathetically renovated in the 1990s. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
British NGR: SW 36407 33292 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°08' 27" N - 05° 41' 26" W (centre)
This aerial view of Botallack mine captures much of the surface features constructed during the early 20th century reworking and the brief trial by Geevor mine in the 1980s. Central is the dressing floors with the arsenic calciner, labyrinth and chimney to the right; the later steel headframe over Allen’s Shaft can be seen top left, with the 19th century Count House and ancillary buildings, top right. © Adam Sharpe
British NGR: SW 36407 33292 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°08' 27" N - 05° 41' 26" W (centre)
This view taken from the top of the arsenic chimney during the recent consolidation shows the repointed calciner and flue in the foreground, with the dressing floors and Allen’s Shaft headframe and steam winder chimney to the rear. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
British NGR: SW 36042 32377, Lat/Long: 50°07' 57" N - 05° 41' 42" W
This recently consolidated site has somewhat unusual arsenic condensing chambers (left of centre) and a fine chimney with distinctive brick detailing and cowl. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 03896 51625 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°19' 54" N - 04° 45' 24" W (centre)
This impressive 18th century harbour on the south Cornish coast was constructed by Charles Rashleigh from 1792 to 1799 to tranship copper ores from the mines in the Par Bay area. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 36219 33523 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°08' 34" N - 05° 41' 36" W (centre)
This distinctive pair of cliff-edge engine houses was constructed to facilitate mining from the mineral lodes which run out under the sea; they are a fitting testimony to the ingenuity and endeavour of the adventurers and mine workers of the 19th century. © Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 36219 33523, Lat/Long: 50°08' 34" N - 05° 41' 36" W
The Crowns pumping engine house captured during a winter storm in 2006. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 68345 40724, Lat/Long: 50°13' 15" N - 05° 14' 56" W
This memorial was erected by public inscription in honour of Francis Lord De Dunstanville and Basset in 1836; the Basset family held significant mining and commercial interests during the 19th century. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 42643 73266 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°32' 16" N - 04° 13' 19" W (centre)
The discovery of a major copper lode at Wheal Maria in 1844 started an extremely profitable venture which was to become the greatest copper mine in Cornwall and Devon and eventually the world’s largest producer of arsenic. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 37545 34507, Lat/Long: 50°09' 08" N - 05° 40' 31" W
Erected in 1954, this steel headrame sits atop Victory Shaft, which was named following the victory of the Allies in 1918, the year before shaft sinking commenced; it was the main winding shaft until the mine’s closure in 1990. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 37483 34567 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°09' 10" N - 05° 40' 35" W (centre)
The mill contained many shaking tables for the separation of fine cassiterite (tin oxide) from waste and five of these are visible; a ball mill for grinding can also be seen in the left foreground. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 60114 31843, Lat/Long: 50°08' 16" N - 05° 21' 30" W
This Tudor and Stuart mansion was for many years in the ownership of the Godolphin family who are credited with the introduction of gunpowder to Cornish mining at Great Work and Godolphin mines in 1689. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 67895 39351 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 30" N - 05° 15' 15" W (centre)
The Great Flat Lode has an outstanding assemblage of mine engine houses and other mine infrastructure; buildings within the South Wheal Frances sett are visible towards the top of the image around Marriott’s Shaft, with those of West Wheal Frances in the foreground. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 43449 34418, Lat/Long: 50°09' 15" N - 05° 35' 34" W
Mining for tin at Ding Dong mine is thought to have taken place in prehistoric times, but this engine house dates from a brief period of working between 1865 and 1877 when it was constructed to house a 40 inch cylinder pumping engine.
Colin Buck © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 42157 72409, Lat/Long: 50°31' 48" N - 04° 13' 42" W
The majority of mineral production which took place in this woodland setting dates from after 1860 when the mine sold predominantly copper, tin and wolfram, the latter being obtained from mineral dump reprocessing until the 1920s. This engine house was to win an award for the high quality of its conservation in 2002. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 71716 41759, Lat/Long: 50°13' 53" N - 05° 12' 08" W
This has been the site of a preaching pit since the 18th century when John Wesley is known to have visited; the distinctive stepped form dates from a remodelling undertaken in 1806. © Cornwall Council/Barry Gamble
BRITISH NGR: SW 64917 39746 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 39" N - 05° 17' 46" W (centre)
The Holman’s Rock Drill (No.3) works in Camborne produced compressed air powered drills for the mining and quarrying industries which were of world renown.
Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 66375 38906 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 14" N - 05° 16' 31" W (centre)
The King Edward site was established as a training mine by the Camborne School of Mines in 1897, and today contains a impressive collection of ore dressing and mining equipment. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 36821 34507, Lat/Long: 50°09' 07" N - 05° 41' 08" W
This much celebrated mine atop the cliffs in west Penwith retains the oldest steam powered beam engine in Cornwall and west Devon (c.1840) and was location of a serious accident on 20th October 1919, when the man-engine rod broke killing 31 miners and injuring many more. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 68058 39374 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 31" N - 05° 15' 07" W (centre)
This extensive range of buildings was erected following a fire which destroyed the 80 inch pumping engine at Marriott’s Shaft in 1895. The central building housed an innovative 40 and 80 inch inverted compound beam engine, one of only a few ever erected. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 44526 69563, Lat/Long: 50°30' 18" N - 04° 11' 37" W
Wagons of these types formerly carried baulks of timber or loads of copper ore to and from Devon Great Consols mine, some three miles to the North West.
Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 44576 69653, Lat/Long: 50°30' 21" N - 04° 11' 35" W
This 19th century water wheel replaces an earlier example which was used to crush manganese ore on the same site; remains of the former wheel lie alongside.
Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 44531 69529, Lat/Long: 50°30' 17" N - 04° 11' 37" W
This early 20th century coaster is thought to be the second to last example of the type built in southern England and can be seen moored at Morwellham on the Devon side of the River Tamar. © Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 76426 42011 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°14' 08" N - 05° 08' 11" W (centre)
This adit or drainage tunnel is an early post medieval example of the ‘coffin’ variety, so called due to its coffin-like shape; the ‘shoulders’ at the base enabled bridging timbers to be placed across to facilitate access over the running water. © Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 76426 42011 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°14' 08" N - 05° 08' 11" W (centre)
Timber setts brace a section of the adit where it traverses unstable ground. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SX 26627 71971, Lat/Long: 50°31' 18" N - 04° 26' 39" W
This impressive building housed the last completely new large engine installation in Cornwall. Constructed in 1907, the 80 inch cylinder engine had only a very short working life with the sett being abandoned in 1914. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 72319 44241, Lat/Long: 50°15' 14" N - 05° 11' 43" W
This Wesleyan Chapel was constructed in 1885 to a design possibly by James Hicks and incorporates a fine granite-dressed three-bay gothic façade. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 69684 36281 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°10' 54" N - 05° 13' 38" W (centre)
Smallholdings such as these were created by mine workers and others to support their families through times of population increase during the 18th to early 19th centuries. © Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 36278 32890, Lat/Long: 50°08' 14" N - 05° 41' 31" W
Wheal Owles worked primarily tin lodes and was location of a catastrophic inundation which killed twenty miners on 10th January 1893, when the flooded Wheal Drea levels adjoining were unexpectedly broken into. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 67416 41880, Lat/Long: 50°13' 51" N - 05° 15' 45" W
This impressive 90 inch pumping engine, part of East Pool & Agar mine, is preserved within its house by the National Trust and is open to visitors. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council.
BRITISH NGR: SW 69877 50013, Lat/Long: 50°18' 18" N - 05° 13' 59" W
This scene has become an iconic symbol of Cornish Mining for many with the conserved pumping engine house occupying this seemingly precarious cliff-edge location. © Ainsley Cocks
BRITISH NGR: SX 05634 57192, Lat/Long: 50°22' 56" N - 04° 44' 07" W
Constructed during 1839-1842, this fine granite viaduct carried both a horse-drawn mineral tramway and a leat across the Luxulyan Valley. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 64280 30246, Lat/Long: 50°07' 31" N - 05° 17' 57" W
Trevarno was once home to the family of William Bickford who is credited with the discovery of the world’s first mine safety fuse in 1831; today, Trevarno is a recreational garden open to the public. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 64151 30174 , Lat/Long: 50°07' 28" N - 05° 18' 03" W
This boating lake lies within the attractive ornamental gardens which were constructed around Trevarno House during the 19th century. © Cornwall Council/Barry Gamble
BRITISH NGR: SW 64803 39811, Lat/Long: 50°12' 41" N - 05° 17' 52" W
This memorial to Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick shows the engineer holding a model of his pioneering steam road car of 1801. Trevithick is also credited with the first use of high-pressure steam in mine pumping and other important developments such as the introduction of the fuel-efficient Cornish boiler. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 68801 40191 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 59" N - 05° 14' 31" W (centre)
This extensive ore dressing complex, built to process ore from South Wheal Frances, was constructed during the 1870s and included a 40 inch stamping engine with 80 heads of stamps, settling strips, Frue Vanners and a variety of buddles. Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 73767 44659 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°15' 30" N - 05° 10' 31" W (centre)
Mining for tin at Wheal Busy dates from the 17th century but the mine is particularly noteworthy for the variety of steam engines known to have been at work here: a Newcomen atmospheric engine was erected c.1725, followed in 1775 by a 72 inch improved atmospheric engine by John Smeaton, then the largest of its type in Cornwall; the first Watt separate-condenser engine in Cornwall was also commissioned for here in 1778. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 35582 32184, Lat/Long: 50°07' 50" N - 05° 42' 04" W
This substantial structure was built c1850 to house a 52 ft (15.8 m) water wheel which pumped from two shafts nearby via a system of flat-rods, angle and balance-bobs. © Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 69877 50013, Lat/Long: 50°18' 18" N - 05° 13' 59" W
This unusually atmospheric image captures the much-photographed Towanroath Shaft 36 inch pumping engine house (c1872) on a hazy afternoon.
Adam Sharpe
BRITISH NGR: SW 69982 50044 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°18' 19" N - 05° 13' 53" W (centre)
The 18 inch cylinder steam whim (winder) engine house can be seen in the foreground with the 24 inch stamps engine house to the rear: the two square openings for the engine’s spring beams (to catch the engine bob in case of piston or pump rod breakage) can clearly be seen immediately below the top chamber window. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 36179 32825, Lat/Long: 50°08' 12" N - 05° 41' 36" W
The stamps engine house and machine loadings of Wheal Edward can be seen in the foreground with the pumping and winding engine houses of the Crowns Section at Botallack, to the left rear; the arsenic calciner chimney is on the right. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 72011 51156, Lat/Long: 50°18' 58" N - 05° 12' 13" W
The 60 inch cylinder pumping engine house at Wheal Friendly, standing overlooking the Trevaunance Valley, was to work as part of West Kitty mine during the early 1900s. © Cornwall Council/Barry Gamble
BRITISH NGR: SX 26487 71213, Lat/Long: 50°30' 53" N - 04° 26' 55" W
Bellingham’s Shaft’ 70 inch pumping engine house dates from the 1880s when the Marke Valley company acquired the Wheal Jenkin sett and relocated three of their steam beam engines. Adam Sharpe © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 72450 51318, Lat/Long: 50°19' 03" N - 05° 11' 52" W
This renovated engine house originally contained a 65 inch cylinder engine (re-bored from 60 inch) erected in 1910 to pump from Sara’s Shaft adjoining. The engine was scrapped in the 1930s but a section of the cast engine bob can be seen at the National Trust’s Cornish Mines and Engines, at Pool. Ainsley Cocks © Cornwall Council
BRITISH NGR: SW 70767 44217 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°15' 12" N - 05° 13' 01" W (centre)
Mining for copper is known to have taken place in the North Downs area during the early 18th century but the winding, pumping and stamping engine houses here (the former is hidden) date from the 1870s when the mine was successfully reopened for tin.
Wheal Basset Stamps. Area: A5.
Steve Hartgroves © Cornwall Council.
British NGR: SW 69122 39894 (centre), Lat/Long: 50°12' 50" N - 05° 14' 15" W (centre)
Wheal Basset Stamps is situated along the Great Flat Lode, so named due to the shallow angle of its dip from the vertical. The stamps battery (formerly between the two central buildings) crushed the ore with fine separation taking place in the Frue Vanner house (1908) to the right.
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