Wheel Pit at Golitha Falls
During Victorian times a mine, appropriately named Wheal Victoria, operated in the woodland at Golitha Falls. The wheel pit beside the wooden fences contained a 30ft waterwheel and the sunken path running above it was once a leat that carried water to it.
The mineshaft is some distance away from the waterwheel so power was transmitted mechanically via a system of rods between the two. A pair of embankments with a V-shaped groove between runs up the side of the valley from the wheelpit to the mineshaft. The flat-rods would have been located in the groove.
On walks
- Golitha Falls and Siblyback Lake (6.1 mile walk)
- Golitha Falls to Trethevy Quoit (7.3 mile walk)
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