The oldest of the mines in the Kit Hill/Gunnislake area was at Holmbush, the massive burrows of whcih stand immediately West of the Stoke Climsland
Category: East Cornwall
Already a considerable copper producer by the end of the eighteenth century, Old Gunnislake Mine is reputed to have produced over half a million pound’s
The earliest documented record of mining at Gunnislake Clitters dates to the 1820s. However, mining was probably going on long before, and within Clitters Wood
Hingston Down was a copper mine worked from at least the 17th century. During the 1850s rich copper deposits were discovered and by 1864, 225