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Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex

England
List entry 1020435
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1020435
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
1.27 hectares
Grid reference
SX 35767 72031
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex is a tin mining site located in Cornwall, England, dating to the industrial mining period. The complex comprises Hitchen's Shaft and associated workings that represent the exploitation of tin deposits characteristic of Cornwall's extensive mining heritage. The site reflects the technological and labour-intensive methods employed in underground tin extraction during the nineteenth century or later phases of Cornish mining activity. As a scheduled ancient monument, the site retains archaeological significance for understanding the development of mining engineering and the industrial landscape of Cornwall.

Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020435. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex?

Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex is a tin mining site located in Cornwall, England, dating to the industrial mining period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020435.

Who is responsible for protecting Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex?

Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020435.

What other scheduled monuments are near Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard (2.4 km), Round barrows on Hingston Down (2.8 km), Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm (3.3 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard
2.4 km
Round barrows on Hingston Down
2.8 km
Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
3.3 km
Henge 315m north west of Westcott
3.7 km
Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
4.5 km
Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
4.6 km
Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
4.9 km
Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
5.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex

Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex

Battle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~12.6 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 21 August 1644Battle (1644) · ~16.2 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 31 August - 1 September 1644Battle (1644) · ~18.7 milesBattle of Stratton 1643Battle (1643) · ~23.3 miles
Domesday entry for Hill?, Cornwall →
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