The Great Flat Lode

Along the strike of the Great Flat Lode – is to be found the finest surviving assemblage of engine houses along a single mineralised structure anywhere in the world.

For 4 km the landscape between and beyond the high hills of Carn Brea and Carnkie Hill is characterised by 24 engine houses (demonstrating a range of pumping, winding and stamping functions), tin dressing floors, extensive tramway beds, mining settlements and the site of the largest tin smelter in Cornwall.

View along the surface of the Great Flat Lode (named for its unusually shallow inclination of around 45 degrees). © HES.

 

 
 
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