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Boswens Menhir, a beautifully shaped standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the east on 5 May 2003.
#BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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#1149 John Buller - Statistical Account of the Parish of St. Just, in Penwith, in the County of Cornwall: With some Notice of its Ecclesiastical and Druidical Antiquities. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1983, 1st Dyllansow edition, facsimile reprint of 1842 edition.
#JohnBuller #StJust #StJustInPenwith #Cornwall #Archaeology #Ecclesiology #Antiquities #BookOfTheDay
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Boswens Menhir, a beautifully shaped standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the south-south-east on 5 May 2003.
#BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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Market Square, St Just, Cornwall, 1962 - Valentine's RP Postcard - Gus Honeybun
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The burial chamber of Chapel Carn Brea Cairn near St Just in West Penwith, Cornwall, photographed from the south south east on 24 July 2004. #ChapelCarnBrea #Dolmens #StJust #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday
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Boswens Menhir, a gorgeously shaped standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the north-north-west on 5 May 2003. #BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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Victorian Cornwall’s leading sector: metal mining
There was no question about Cornwall’s leading economic sector in the mid-1800s. In terms of income, productivity and employment it was metal mining. The early 1860s marked the peak of Cornish mining. Deep copper mining had broken out of its eighteenth-century heartland west of Truro in the 1810s, first to mid-Cornwall in the 1810s and then further east in the 1830s and 40s, where it joined earlier smaller tin mining ventures. At the same time, the predominantly tin mining concerns of the St Agnes, Helston and St Just districts continued to employ a large number of miners.
The mining landscape of the Central Mining District – Wheal Grenville looking east along the Great Flat Lode in 1904In 1861 30 per cent of men aged 15 to 69 were enumerated in the census of that year as working on and in mines. This includes surface workers, enginemen, mine smiths, mine clerks and others, as well as the iconic underground tributer. A map of the relative distribution of these men clearly indicates the districts most affected by mining – west Cornwall from Perranporth to St Just, mid-Cornwall around the Hensbarrow granitic outcrop and east Cornwall (where it had spilled over the Tamar into west Devon in the 1840s.)
Mine relics at Caradon Hill near Liskeard, site of a copper mining boom in the 1840sFew of Cornwall’s 212 parishes were wholly untouched by mining; a large block in north Cornwall made up the main non-mining district while other non-mining parishes were to be found along the south coast. But of the over 29,000 miners in 1861 over a quarter (7,453) lived in just four parishes – Camborne, Illogan, Redruth and Gwennap. These four comprised the Central Mining District. They accounted for more than twice the number of miners at work in east Cornwall for example, the relative importance of the latter being exaggerated by the lower population density of the area.
The role of mining is therefore perhaps better illustrated by a map of the absolute number of miners, which more clearly portrays the mining districts of Cornwall. Here it is.
#Camborne #Gwennap #Helston #Illogan #miners #Redruth #StAgnes #StJust
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Boswens Menhir, a standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the east on 5 May 2003. #BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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#487 John Buller - Statistical Account of the Parish of St Just, in Penwith, in the County of Cornwall: With some Notice of its Ecclesiastical and Druidical Antiquities. R.D. Rodda, Penzance, 1842, 1st Edition. #JohnBuller #StJust #StJustInPenwith #Cornwall #Archaeology #Ecclesiology #Antiquities #BookOfTheDay
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Headstones on the hillside among white bluebells at the little parish church of St Just in Roseland Cornwall. #Cornwall #StJust #AYEarForArt https://www.pictorem.com/556451/St%20Just%20in%20Roseland%20parish%20church%20in%20Cornwall%20UK.html
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The Cargodna pumping house, West Wheal Owles mine on the clifftop near Botallack, Cornwall
The site of one of the worst mining disasters in Cornish History. On the 10th of January 1893 a large section of rock separating this mine from old flooded workings collapsed and flooded the mine in the space of 20 minutes up to the 30 fathom level (sea level). Half of the shift were drowned, 19 men and one boy.
#MiningDisaster #WhealOwles #StJust #Cornwall #EngineHouse
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One of the row of several small holed stones on Kenidjack Common near St Just in Penwith in Cornwall. Photographed from the east on 5 May 2003. #HoledStones #StandingStones #Menhirs #Megaliths #StJust #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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Boswens Menhir, a standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the south-west on 5 May 2003. #BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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A nice evening last night at Botallack. What an ewe inspiring view this is. #botallack #stjust #nationaltrust #photography #cornwall #photography #landscape #seascape
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Boswens Menhir, a standing stone on Boswens Common on the moors above St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the west on 5 May 2003. #BoswensMenhir #StJust #Penwith #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStoneSunday
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A view of the entrance grave on the edge of Ballowall Barrow at Carn Gluze in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, taken from the south west on 5 April 2003. #BallowallBarrow #StJust #Cornwall #EntranceGraves #Archaeology #TombTuesday