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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cornwall Wildlife Trust Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency) Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Cornwall and West Plymouth (European...
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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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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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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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Veneti (Gaul) (category Tribes in pre-Roman Gaul)
and structurally sound, capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of the Atlantic. They controlled the tin trade from mining in Cornwall and Devon...
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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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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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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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Botallack Mine (category Arsenic mines in Cornwall)
former mine in Botallack in the west of Cornwall, UK. Since 2006 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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States (and British plants) and donated to the nation. The remains of Cape Cornwall Mine are designated as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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Knocker (folklore) (category Devon folklore)
in Cornish and Devon folklore. The Welsh counterpart is the coblyn. It is closely related to the Irish leprechaun, Kentish kloker and the English and...
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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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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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Dumnonii (section Sub-Roman and post-Roman Dumnonia)
inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula...
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Camborne School of Mines (redirect from School of Mines in Cornwall)
an arts club Cornwall portal The Mining Association of the United Kingdom Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Mining in Cornwall and Devon "Camborne School...
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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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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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p. 52;archive.org. Barton, D. B. (1978). A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon (3rd ed.). Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. pp. 51, 95. Fleming...
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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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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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