Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
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How it came to be
In Cornwall and West Devon, in south-west England, deep mining for copper and tin reshaped the landscape in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early 19th century the region produced two-thirds of the world's copper.
High-pressure pumping engines developed by Richard Trevithick and Arthur Woolf allowed mining at much greater depths. Cornish beam engines were shipped from foundries in Hayle, Tavistock and elsewhere to mines around the world, and the miners followed.
After the copper crash of the 1860s the remaining mines turned to tin. South Crofty, the last working tin mine in Europe, closed in 1998. In 2006 ten areas were inscribed together as one cultural landscape.
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