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Holmbush Mine is a rotative engine house with associated boiler house, loadings and platform located on Windsor Lane in Cornwall. The structure dates from the industrial period of Cornish tin and copper mining, when such engine houses powered the machinery essential to mineral extraction and processing. The rotative engine house represents the technological advancement of the nineteenth-century mining industry, designed to house the steam engine that drove the pumping and hauling mechanisms critical to deep mining operations. The survival of the engine house alongside its associated boiler house and mine infrastructure provides important evidence of the industrial working landscape that characterised Cornwall's mining heritage during this period of intensive mineral extraction.
Holmbush Mine: Windsor Lane rotative engine house with adjacent boiler house, loadings and platform is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020327. View the official record →
Holmbush Mine is a rotative engine house with associated boiler house, loadings and platform located on Windsor Lane in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020327.
Holmbush Mine: Windsor Lane rotative engine house with adjacent boiler house, loadings and platform 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 1020327.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard (2.3 km), Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm (3 km), Henge 315m north west of Westcott (3.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Holmbush Mine: Windsor Lane rotative engine house with adjacent boiler house, loadings and platform's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Holmbush Mine: Windsor Lane rotative engine house with adjacent boiler house, loadings and platform stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.