Wheal Peevor
Wheal Peevor was a metalliferous mine located on North Downs about 1.5 miles north-east of Redruth, Cornwall, England. The first mining sett was granted here in around 1701 on land owned by the St Aubyn family.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Stephen and Redruth railway station.
Church of St Stephen
Church
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Church of St Stephen is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Wheal Peevor.
Redruth railway station
Railway station
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Redruth station serves the town of Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom; it is situated on the Cornish Main Line between Truro and Camborne. The station is 309 miles 68 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. Redruth railway station is situated 1½ miles south of Wheal Peevor.
Kresen Kernow
Government office
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Kresen Kernow in Redruth, United Kingdom is Cornwall's archive centre, home to the world's biggest collection of archive and library material related to Cornwall. Kresen Kernow is situated 1½ miles southwest of Wheal Peevor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wheal Rose and Forge.
Wheal Rose
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wheal Rose is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the Redruth and St Agnes parishes.
Scorrier
Village
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Day, about 2 miles northeast of the centre of Redruth and 3 miles southeast of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads west to Camborne and the B3298 road south to Carharrack.
Wheal Peevor
- Type: Ruins
- Description: tin and copper mine in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: tin mine, copper mine, and historic site
- Location: Redruth, North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.25335° or 50° 15′ 12″ northLongitude
-5.21714° or 5° 13′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C2P7Q3M+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 450582302OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q7991799
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In Other Languages
From Cornish to Welsh—“Wheal Peevor” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Hwel Pever”
- Welsh: “Hwel Pever”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Radnor Golf and Leisure and Globe Vale Caravan Park.
Nearby Places
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wheal Peevor”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.