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Engine House Killifreth (Hawke's Shaft)
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⚒️ Mines & quarries

Engine House Killifreth (Hawke's Shaft)

Ruins · United Kingdom

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
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Coordinates
50.254, -5.180
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Why it was abandoned

⚒️ Mines & quarries

Detected automatically from the text: Killifreth Mine was a mine near Chacewater in Cornwall, England, producing at various periods copper, tin and arsenic.

History

Killifreth Mine was a mine near Chacewater in Cornwall, England, producing at various periods copper, tin and arsenic. The engine house over Hawke's Shaft is a Grade II listed building; it has the tallest surviving chimney in Cornwall.

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