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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Battle of Gunnislake New Bridge (category 17th century in Cornwall)
took place on 20 July 1644 on and around Gunnislake New Bridge, a bridge over the River Tamar between Cornwall and Devon, during the First English Civil...
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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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Cornwall Wildlife Trust Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency) Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Cornwall and West Plymouth (European...
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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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Heritage Site, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. The property is on the site of the former Levant Mine, established in 1820 and closed in 1930, where...
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Wheal Coates (category Tin mines in Cornwall)
Old Whim and New Whim engine houses, the Towanroath engine house, and the calciner. Wheal Coates is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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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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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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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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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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The evolution of transport in Cornwall has been shaped by the county's strong maritime, mining and industrial traditions and much of the transport infrastructure...
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Parys Mountain (category Mountains and hills of Anglesey)
Retrieved 4 November 2018. Barton, D. B. (1978). A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon (3rd ed.). Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. p. 26. "A town breaks...
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