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Random mines of the day
Sep. 27th, 2026 01:43 pmThere was a time some years ago when I was regularly posting here random mines I stumbled across. There aren't so many old mines in Pembrokeshire as there were in the Tamar Valley, but I did find one at the start of August, when I walked from Nolton Haven along the coast to Newgale beach.
A rather hot and annoying walk, that one, since even though it was overcast and raining when I set off, and I carried water with me, it was a lot hotter than the forecast had promised.
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Anyway, the reason I started writing this post was that I came across this website: https://abandonedminemodels.com/ which really shows off the quite ludicrous amount of tunnelling, specifically in Cornwall. The mines aren't joined up, but they overlap so much that if a relatively small amount of rock was removed, you could once have travelled half way across the county (which is not small) underground.
A rather hot and annoying walk, that one, since even though it was overcast and raining when I set off, and I carried water with me, it was a lot hotter than the forecast had promised.
( Read more... )
Anyway, the reason I started writing this post was that I came across this website: https://abandonedminemodels.com/ which really shows off the quite ludicrous amount of tunnelling, specifically in Cornwall. The mines aren't joined up, but they overlap so much that if a relatively small amount of rock was removed, you could once have travelled half way across the county (which is not small) underground.
