Cornwall
Penwith
St Just in Penwith and Zennor
Camborne, Redruth and Illogan
Gwennap and the Carnon Valley in west Cornwall
Wendron area in Kerrier
St Agnes and Porthtowan
North Cornwall (a few mines but no tin)
A large area bounded by St Austell, Wadebridge, Bodmin and Callington in mid and east Cornwall
River Tamar
Tamar Valley - copper, tin, lead, silver, and arsenic.
See Morwellham Quay.
Particularly in the nineteenth century, ores were internationally traded through Plymouth Dock
Devon
Lydford – an ancient Saxon burh; the early medieval location of the most westerly silver mint and later ceremonial parliament and prison of the Stannary Court for Dartmoor
Bere Ferrers – a unique Crown-operated medieval silver (and lead) mine
Combe Martin – lead/silver deposits
Exmoor and Brendon Hills – iron lead, silver, copper
Dartmoor – ancient stannary towns include Tavistock, Ashburton, Chagford and later Plympton
West Devon
Bampfylde Mine, North Molton
Blackdown Hills – copper deposits
Cornwall
Penwith
St Just in Penwith and Zennor
Camborne, Redruth and Illogan
Gwennap and the Carnon Valley in west Cornwall
Wendron area in Kerrier
St Agnes and Porthtowan
North Cornwall (a few mines but no tin)
A large area bounded by St Austell, Wadebridge, Bodmin and Callington in mid and east Cornwall
River Tamar
Tamar Valley - copper, tin, lead, silver, and arsenic. See Morwellham Quay. Particularly in the nineteenth century, ores were internationally traded through Plymouth Dock
Devon
Lydford – an ancient Saxon burh; the early medieval location of the most westerly silver mint and later ceremonial parliament and prison of the Stannary Court for Dartmoor
Bere Ferrers – a unique Crown-operated medieval silver (and lead) mine
Combe Martin – lead/silver deposits
Exmoor and Brendon Hills – iron lead, silver, copper
Dartmoor – ancient stannary towns include Tavistock, Ashburton, Chagford and later Plympton
West Devon
Bampfylde Mine, North Molton
Blackdown Hills – copper deposits
Mining in Cornwall and Devon