Wheal Trewavas was a copper mine in Cornwall, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Porthleven. The ruined engine houses remain, on sea cliffs overlooking Mount's Bay, just east of Trewavas Head. The site is a Scheduled Monument.[1]
^Historic England. "Wheal Trewavas copper mine 310m south of Trewavas (1021324)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
WhealTrewavas was a copper mine in Cornwall, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Porthleven. The ruined engine houses remain, on sea cliffs overlooking...
of Devon, north and east of Dartmoor: Sydenham Damerel, Lydford, Wheal Betsy, Wheal Friendship, Okehampton, Sticklepath, Chagford, Buckfastleigh, Ashburton...
Wheal Vor was a metalliferous mine about 2 miles (3.2 km) north west of Helston and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Breage in the west of Cornwall...
such as Trewavas Head. This area shows many signs of Cornwall's mining history with abandoned engine houses such as Wheal Prosper and WhealTrewavas close...
fishing fleet. Wheal Prosper, (grid reference SW593270) on Rinsey East Cliff, started operating in 1860 possibly as an extension of WhealTrewavas mine, 800m...
West Cornwall, England. The hamlet is situated within the Tregonning and Trewavas Mining District of the Cornish Mining World Heritage area. Parts of the...
second, deeper adit. It reopened again between 1807 and 1811 as Wheal Unity or South Wheal Unity and soon began to produce the largest sheets of native copper...
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