Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite...
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The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site which includes select mining landscapes in Cornwall and West Devon in the south...
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Stannary law (redirect from Devon Stannary Parliament)
tin mining in Cornwall and Devon; although no longer of much practical relevance, the stannary law remains part of the law of the United Kingdom and is...
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interest shown in Devon and Cornwall's tin resources. (For further discussion of tin mining see the section on the economy below.) In the first four centuries...
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tons (1834–96); and Blue Hills 2,120 tons (1858–97). Much of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site, is in the parish. Tin...
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Merrivale SSSI is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale Mining in Cornwall and Devon Portcullis House, 2001, last major contract...
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of Cape Cornwall Mine now form part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cape Cornwall Mine opened in 1838 during...
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then the Cornish language. Cornwall was part of the territory of the tribe of the Dumnonii that included modern-day Devon and parts of Somerset. After a...
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districts from the Ore Mountains and evidence of tin mining begins to appear in Brittany, Devon and Cornwall, and in the Iberian Peninsula around 2000...
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site's dump ore. The mine is now part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage site and has been open to the public since 2009. Three...
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much of Devon's countryside and coastline as the Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks, and the Jurassic Coast and Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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sources and trade during antiquity Dartmoor tin mining Mining in Cornwall and Devon French, C. N. (1999). "The 'Submerged Forest' palaeosols of Cornwall" (PDF)...
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Geevor Tin Mine (category Mining museums in Cornwall)
mine has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. Tin and copper have been mined from the general area of Geevor...
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Stannary (redirect from Devon stannaries)
administrative division established under stannary law in the English counties of Cornwall and Devon to manage the collection of tin coinage, which was the...
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Hingston Down (redirect from Hingston Down, Devon)
Callington District, Cornwall, England, UK Embrey, P. G.; Symes, R. F. (1987). "The mines and mining". Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. London: British Museum...
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north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall is also...
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Mining District is that part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site surrounding the village of St Agnes, Cornwall...
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1987 song by Coil All pages with titles containing Wheal Mining in Cornwall and Devon, includes mines whose names include Wheal Wheel (disambiguation) This...
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Ding Dong mines (category Grade II listed buildings in Cornwall)
The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the...
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Tin coinage (category Mining in Cornwall)
In Devon and Cornwall, tin coinage was a tax on refined tin, payable to the Duchy of Cornwall and administered in the Stannary Towns. The oldest surviving...
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Tin Duties Act 1838 (category 19th century in Devon)
taxation system of the tin mines in Cornwall and Devon, and authorized instead an annual payment to the Duke of Cornwall to compensate for this loss of...
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much of Devon's countryside and coastline as the Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks, and the Jurassic Coast and Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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Porthtowan (redirect from Porthtowan, Cornwall)
and 24 km (15 mi) southwest of Newquay in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site. Porthtowan is popular with surfers and...
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Wheal Jane (category Mines in Cornwall)
United Kingdom. Mining in Cornwall and Devon Camborne School of Mines List of topics related to Cornwall Geevor Tin Mine South Crofty Devon Great Consols...
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regions of the UK. The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, which includes select mining landscapes across Cornwall and West Devon, has been a World Heritage...
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Consolidated Mines (category Copper mines in Cornwall)
profitable, and it was the largest single producer of copper ore in Cornwall. Today the mine is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World...
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Bal maiden (category Mining in Devon)
and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the mining industries of Cornwall and western Devon, at...
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Dumnonia (redirect from King of Cornwall)
South West England. It was centred in the area of modern Devon, but also included modern Cornwall and part of Somerset, with its eastern boundary changing...
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Wheal Prosper (category Tin mines in Cornwall)
house Cornwall portal Wheal Trewavas Wheal Vor Botallack Mine Levant Mine and Beam Engine Mining in Cornwall and Devon Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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tin Mining in Cornwall and Devon. Tin production is also offered as one of the primary factors for the 1st century CE Roman invasion, conquest, and occupation...
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