South Kit Hill Mine
South Kit Hill Mine opened in 1856 and closed in 1874 and reached a maximum depth of over 100 metres. The chimney was for a steam engine which drove ore-crushing stamps for the adjacent dressing floors and pumped from the engine shaft via a flat rod system. Two rectangular embanked areas partly cut into the hillside were originally reservoirs providing a water supply for the processing floors which were connected by leats.
In the 15th and 16th Centuries, surface mining took place for tin and various pits on the surface remain from this.
On walks
- Kit Hill to Kelly Bray (5.3 mile walk)