Botallack Mine was created by the Industrial Revolution that shaped Cornwall. There is evidence of tin mining in this area from the 17th Century and possibly earlier. Botallack stands defiant above ...

Botallack Mine and the Engine Houses of Owles and Crowns provided the dramatic coastal setting for mining scenes on the BBC series Poldark. The area near St Just once played host to some very well ...

Poldark built its entire identity on sweeping cliffs, old mine houses, and coastlines that feel like they’ve seen more storms ...

A little known and long-forgotten royal visit transformed the fortunes of a Cornish mine where nine people lost their lives - and helped spark a tourism boom. In July 1865, the Prince and Princess of ...

It was late afternoon on a partly sunny September day in Charlestown, a harbor town in Cornwall, England, on the filming set for the BBC’s smash hit television drama “Poldark.” Security officers ...

CLIMBING a cliff-top path weaving through an endless carpet of heather, I look up to see a series of mines on the horizon. At St Agnes Head, which doubles for Nampara Valley in the BBC drama Poldark, ...

The site at Levant is particularly sensitive as it was the scene of one of Cornwall's worst ever mining disasters, when 31 men lost their lives in 1919. The National Trust's works on the site aim to ...