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The Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
We’re the largest industrial World Heritage Site in the UK - 20,000 hectares across Cornwall and west Devon.
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Ranndiryow TEB yn Kernow ha Dewnens West
St Just Mining District
Mining on the edge of the earth
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a2/Hayle Aerial - Steve Hartgroves- Page Area 2 Hayle.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
The Port of Hayle
Global mining port with natural wonders
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a3/A3 Godolphin House 1 - Ainsley Cocks.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Tregonning & Gwinear Mining Districts with Trewavas
Diverse landscapes and great houses
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a4/A4 Wheal Ann Aerial 1 - Adam Huntington-Whiteley 300ppi.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Wendron Mining District
Tranquil rural area famed for tin-streaming
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a5/A5 Heartlands - Robinsons Shaft 1 Jan 2019.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Camborne & Redruth with Wheal Peevor & Portreath
The capital of Cornish mining
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a6/A6 Gwennap Pit 2 - Barry Gamble 240px.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Gwennap Mining District with Devoran, Perran & Kennall Vale
Great cycle trails through the Copper Kingdom
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a7/St Agnes Museum Gateway - Emma Parkman.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
St Agnes Mining District
Iconic clifftop engine houses and much more
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a8/Treffry Viaduct 600px - Ainsley Cocks.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Luxulyan Valley with Charlestown
The creations of two extraordinary industrialists
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a9/Prince of Wales Shaft engine house Ainsley Cocks - page Area 9 caradon.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Caradon Mining District
Big skies, boom and bust
![](https://cdn.cornishmining.org.uk/media/areas/a10/Westbridge Cottages - Barry Gamble- Page Area 10 Tavi & Tamar.jpg?width=340&height=280&rmode=crop&quality=100&rxy=0.5,0.5&token=txF8Dt4BRv3lcSHMRadjVTPPlLTvTZB5ZFkPU5yufiM%3D)
Tamar Valley Mining District with Tavistock
Nature and industry entwined
Disclaimer : the World Heritage Site Areas shown here are for illustrative purposes only and are not to scale. Please see the Cornwall Council Historic Environment Viewer and the Devon County Council Environment Viewer, on their respective websites, for scalable representations of the ten Areas.
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Diwettha Nowodhow ha Hwarvosow
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Mineworkers’ Smallholdings within the Tamara Landscape Partnership area
A mine is a hole anywhere in the world with at least one Cornishman at the bottom of it!
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