Wheal Unity Wood
The larger of the two engine houses in the field beside the woodland was for pumping from a shaft here known as Magors shaft. The other engine house was used to power both winding equipment to raise ore from the mine and stamps (ore pulverising machines). The engine house is not oriented correctly to raise ore from Magors shaft so it is thought this was done via another shaft nearby. The mine produced both copper and also tin, extracted from a deposit deeper underground.
Mentioned in walks
- Twelveheads and Chacewater (6 mile walk)
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