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Danescombe Mine
Calstock, Cornwall
These are the monumental buildings of the old Cotehele Consols’ copper and arsenic mine. They are unusually well built, handsome and complete, and stand by a stream in a steep wooded valley leading down to the Tamar. We have taken a long lease of them from the National Trust and have consolidated and repaired them, so that it is possible to stay here in comfort and study at close quarters the tremendous past of the Devon and Cornish mines. It was a dreadful but romantic trade which enriched among others the Dukes of Bedford and the family of William Morris. The engine house, which we have made habitable, is strongly built of the Killas stone in which the lodes occur. It used to contain a rotary beam engine with a 40-inch cylinder driving a Taylor roll crusher, a pump and two buddles on the dressing floor. The mine worked, on and off, from 1822 to 1900, kept alive at the last by the demand for arsenic to protect cotton against the boll weevil. In the woods above lie the abandoned shafts of other mines; and only a short and beautiful walk away, above the Tamar, is Cotehele, a most notable medieval house.
Sleeps: 4
Beds: T D
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