Wheal Fortescue
Wheal Fortescue is a mine in St Winnow, Cornwall, England. Wheal Fortescue is situated nearby to St Winnow CofE School, as well as near the church Chapel of St Nectans.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapel of St Nectans and Lostwithiel railway station.
Chapel of St Nectans
Church
Chapel of St Nectans is a church, which is situated 2,300 feet northeast of Wheal Fortescue.
Lostwithiel railway station
Railway station
Lostwithiel railway station serves the town of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England. It is 277 miles 36 chains from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. Lostwithiel railway station is situated 1 mile west of Wheal Fortescue.
Lostwithiel Stannary Palace
Historic building
The Stannary Palace, also known as the Duchy Palace, was a complex of buildings operated by the Dukes of Cornwall as the centre of their administration. The surviving exchequer hall is a Grade I listed building. Lostwithiel Stannary Palace is situated 1 mile west of Wheal Fortescue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lostwithiel and Milltown.
Lostwithiel
Town
Bodmin a small town of around 15,000 people in the middle of North Cornwall to the south west of Bodmin Moor. It was the major religious and administrative centre for Cornwall throughout the Middle Ages from the late Saxon period onwards.
Milltown
Hamlet
Milltown is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. It lies in Lanlivery civil parish, about a mile south of Lostwithiel, in the valley of a small tributary of the River Fowey. Cornwall has another hamlet called Milltown, in the parish of Cardinham. Milltown is situated 1½ miles southwest of Wheal Fortescue.
Couch’s Mill
Hamlet
Couch's Mill is a small hamlet in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the parish of Boconnoc, a large private estate that borders the hamlet to the north. Couch’s Mill is situated 1½ miles east of Wheal Fortescue.
Wheal Fortescue
- Type: Mine
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: St Winnow, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.40693° or 50° 24′ 25″ north
Longitude
-4.64433° or 4° 38′ 40″ west
Open location code
9C2QC944+Q7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mine
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