This museum set on lonely cliffs far above the swirling Atlantic Ocean is where visitors to the area can learn all about Cornwall's great mining heritage.
Here you will discover a world long gone and see machinery including giant 90 foot beam engines, evocative of the days when men worked and perished in perilously situated Cornish tin and copper mines.
There is also an interesting display recounting the regions social history.
This fascinating discovery centre can be found at Pool, Nr. Redruth, Cornwall
a Seaside Town in the county of Cornwall
(2.4 miles, 3.8 km, direction NW)Portreath lies on Cornwall's magnificent North-western coast, it occupies a picture-postcard valley setting of woods, streams and fine rural meadow-land, with its crowning glory being the beach lying beneath rugged cliffs topped with springy turf and heathers...
in the county of Cornwall
(7.6 miles, 12.2 km, direction W)Three miles of golden sands backed by impressive sand dunes have made Hayle a perfect summer place for families to enjoy a holiday. It is an old town, made prosperous in the 18th-century when John Harvey opened his tin, copper and foundry business..
a Historic Market Town in the county of Cornwall
(9.7 miles, 15.5 km, direction E)Truro, today is Cornwall's unofficial capital and adminstrative centre but in the Middle Ages Truro was one of the towns which controlled Cornwall's flourishing tin mining industry...
a Seaside Town in the county of Cornwall
(9.7 miles, 15.6 km, direction W)There is a magical quality surrounding the whole of the Cornish coast of which St.Ives is a small but special part...
a Picturesque Village in the county of Cornwall
(10.2 miles, 16.4 km, direction S)Porthleven has two picturesque harbours - the inner harbour is lined with dazzling white cottages, with the walls of the outer harbour giving shelter from the often tumultuous seas...
All towns in Cornwall
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This hauntingly beautiful spot was initially made famous by centuries of shipwreck caused by perilous rocks scattered around its.....
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The Seal Sanctuary was set up in 1958 in the small village of St Agnes, in 1974 we moved to Gweek after we needed more space for.....
A former 16th-century parish church once stood on the site of this sumptuous cathedral, which was designed by John Loughborough.....
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