Wheal Jenkin
Wheal Jenkin was a tin mine which was initially worked using shallow shafts drained by an adit and was deepened in the 1830s using steam-powered pumping engines whilst "stamps" to crush the ore were powered by water wheels. The engine houses remain from a later period of working in the 1880s. The tall engine house was used for a pumping engine. The chimney collapsed when an old mine shaft (probably from the 1830s) opened up beneath it. The engine house on the other side of the track was used to power "stamps" to crush the tin ore and the area around this was for processing.
On walks
- Minions and Caradon Hill (5 mile walk)
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