Soft Sunset, Wheal Owles. Area: A1

© 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.