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Pp pointed out to me the other day that I never walk at Hingston Down mine, so today I did.
Hingston Down was a Copper, tin, wolfram and arsenic mine. According to Aditnow, this enginehouse was built in 1905 to house a second hand beam engine. They never got it working properly since their shaft was too wiggly, and the mine eventually closed, with an air of disappointed expectations.
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Hingston Down was a Copper, tin, wolfram and arsenic mine. According to Aditnow, this enginehouse was built in 1905 to house a second hand beam engine. They never got it working properly since their shaft was too wiggly, and the mine eventually closed, with an air of disappointed expectations.
