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Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Industrial mining landscape in Cornwall and West Devon

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About

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 west of England. The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, July 2006. Following plans in 2011 to restart mining at South Crofty, and to build a supermarket at Hayle Harbour, the World Heritage Committee drafted a decision in 2014 to put the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger, but this was rejected at the 38th Committee Session at Doha, Qatar (July 2014), in favour of a follow-up Reactive Monitoring Mission.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
Contemporary Period
Temporal Epochs

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Arsenic ascendancy

late 19th century

Steam engine advances

early 19th century

Peak copper production

early 19th century

Copper crash

1860s

South Crofty closure

1998

World Heritage inscription

July 2006

Proposals and monitoring

2011

World Heritage Committee decision

July 2014

Classification

Archaeological Features

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Miscellaneous Features

Underground Tunnels
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Industrial and Craft Structures

MinesFoundriesWorkshopsToolmakers’ Areas
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Domestic and Habitation Structures

Towns
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Transportation and Communication Structures

QuaysShipyards
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Country

United Kingdom

Coordinates

50.14° N, -5.38° E